Emergency Department Use Among the Homeless and Marginally Housed: Results From a Community-Based Study
Margot B. Kushel, MD,
Sharon Perry, PhD,
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH,
Richard Clark, MPH and
Andrew R Moss, PhD
Margot B. Kushel is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California at San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif. Sharon Perry, David Bangsberg, Richard Clark, and Andrew R. Moss are with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco. David Bangsberg is also with the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital.
FIGURE 1—Frequency and volume of emergency department (ED) encounters in a 12-month period among homeless and marginally housed individuals (n = 2532): San Francisco, 19961997.