Factors Associated With Hospital Readmission Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness. 2022

Keshab Subedi, and Binod Acharya, and Shweta Ghimire
Institute for Research on Equity and Community Health, ChristianaCare Health Systems, Wilmington, Delaware. Electronic address: Keshab9subedi@gmail.com.

Homelessness is associated with increased acute care utilization and poor healthcare outcomes. This study aims to compare hospital readmission rates among patients experiencing homelessness and patients who are not homeless and assess the impact of different clinical and demographic characteristics on acute care utilization among patients experiencing homelessness. This was a retrospective study of patients encountered in 2018 and 2019 at ChristianaCare Health Systems. The analysis was done in August 2021. The prevalence of major chronic conditions among patients experiencing homelessness (n=1,329) and those not experiencing it (n=143,360) was evaluated. Patients experiencing homelessness were matched with nonhomeless patients using 1:1 propensity score matching. Time-to-event analysis approaches were used to analyze time-to-readmission and 30-day readmission rates. The 30-day readmission rates were 42.8% among patients experiencing homelessness and 19.9% among matched patients not experiencing homelessness. The hazard of 30-day readmission among patients experiencing homelessness was 2.6 (95% CI=1.93, 3.53) times higher than that among the matched nonhomeless cohort. In patients experiencing homelessness, drug use disorder, major depressive disorder, chronic kidney disease, obesity, arthritis, HIV/AIDS, and epilepsy were associated with shortened time to readmission. Moreover, Black racial identity was associated with shortened time to readmission. Patients experiencing homelessness had higher acute care utilization than those not experiencing homelessness. Black racial identity and several comorbidities were associated with increased acute care utilization among patients experiencing homelessness. Efforts to address upstream social determinants of health, destigmatization, and healthcare management accounting for the whole spectrum of clinical comorbidities might be important in promoting the health of people experiencing homelessness.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010359 Patient Readmission Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment. Hospital Readmission,Rehospitalization,Unplanned Hospital Readmissions,Unplanned Readmission,30 Day Readmission,Hospital Readmissions,Readmission, Hospital,Readmissions, Hospital,Thirty Day Readmission,30 Day Readmissions,Hospital Readmission, Unplanned,Hospital Readmissions, Unplanned,Readmission, Patient,Readmission, Thirty Day,Readmission, Unplanned,Rehospitalizations,Thirty Day Readmissions,Unplanned Hospital Readmission,Unplanned Readmissions
D003865 Depressive Disorder, Major Disorder in which five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure. Symptoms include: depressed mood most of the day, nearly every daily; markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities most of the day, nearly every day; significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain; Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day; psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day; fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day; feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt; diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day; or recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt. (DSM-5) Depression, Involutional,Major Depressive Disorder,Melancholia, Involutional,Paraphrenia, Involutional,Psychosis, Involutional,Depressive Disorders, Major,Involutional Depression,Involutional Melancholia,Involutional Paraphrenia,Involutional Paraphrenias,Involutional Psychoses,Involutional Psychosis,Major Depressive Disorders,Paraphrenias, Involutional,Psychoses, Involutional
D006703 Ill-Housed Persons Persons without adequate housing or without permanent residence. The concept excludes nomadic peoples. Homeless Persons,Homeless Shelters,Shelterless Persons,Shelters for Homeless Persons,Street People,Unhoused Persons,Homelessness,Homeless Person,Homeless Shelter,Ill Housed Persons,Ill-Housed Person,People, Street,Person, Homeless,Person, Ill-Housed,Person, Shelterless,Person, Unhoused,Persons, Homeless,Persons, Ill-Housed,Persons, Shelterless,Persons, Unhoused,Shelter, Homeless,Shelterless Person,Shelters, Homeless,Unhoused Person
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective
D019966 Substance-Related Disorders Disorders related to substance use or abuse. Chemical Dependence,Drug Abuse,Drug Addiction,Drug Dependence,Drug Habituation,Drug Use Disorder,Drug Use Disorders,Organic Mental Disorders, Substance-Induced,Substance Abuse,Substance Dependence,Substance Related Disorder,Substance Use,Substance Use Disorder,Substance Use Disorders,Prescription Drug Abuse,Substance Addiction,Abuse, Drug,Abuse, Prescription Drug,Abuse, Substance,Addiction, Drug,Addiction, Substance,Chemical Dependences,Dependence, Chemical,Dependence, Drug,Dependence, Substance,Dependences, Chemical,Disorder, Drug Use,Disorder, Substance Related,Disorder, Substance Use,Disorders, Substance Related,Drug Abuse, Prescription,Habituation, Drug,Organic Mental Disorders, Substance Induced,Related Disorder, Substance,Related Disorders, Substance,Substance Abuses,Substance Uses,Use, Substance

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