Findings of a national dataset analysis on the visits of homeless patients to US emergency departments during 2005-2015

To our knowledge, there has been limited description of emergency department (ED) visits involving homeless patients over the last decade. Our study aims to analyze US national survey data to elucidate the differences between homeless and non-homeless patients’ ED visits in terms of patient demographics, resource utilization, and diagnoses received. This was a retrospective study using data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care...