Hospital Readmissions in a Community-based Sample of Homeless Adults: a Matched-cohort Study

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1011-1018

  Saab, Dima ^a   Nisenbaum, Rosane ^a   Dhalla, Irfan ^a,b   Hwang, Stephen W ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

administrative health data; homeless persons; hospital readmissions; matched cohort

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY HOSPITAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOMELESSNESS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; TRENDS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT READMISSION; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84969787314     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3680-8     Document Type: Article

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