Food, Shelter and Safety Needs Motivating Homeless Persons' Visits to an Urban Emergency Department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Rodriguez, Robert M ^a   Fortman, Jonathan ^a   Chee, Chris ^a   Ng, Valerie ^a   Poon, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOOD; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOME; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUNGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SLEEP; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; URBAN AREA;

EID: 64549128764     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.046     Document Type: Article

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