The Effects of Respite Care for Homeless Patients: A Cohort Study
David Buchanan, MD,
Bruce Doblin, MD, MPH,
Theophilus Sai, MD and
Pablo Garcia, MD
David Buchanan and Theophilus Sai are with the Department of Medicine at Stroger Hospital of Cook County (formerly Cook County Hospital) and Bruce Doblin is with the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Pablo Garcia is with the Department of Anesthesia, St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, New York.
FIGURE 1——Difference between respite care group and usual care group in mean inpatient days, emergency department visits, and outpatient clinic visits (with 95% confidence intervals) during the 12-month follow-up period.
Note. Differences less than zero indicate fewer days or visits in the respite care group. Confidence intervals were calculated using 1000 bootstrap simulations, because of the non-normal distributions of the outcome variables.
FIGURE 2——Difference in mean inpatient days between the respite care group and usual care group during the 12-month follow-up period (with 95% confidence intervals), by reason for index hospitalization.
Note. The interaction between group (respite care and usual care) and reason for admission at index hospitalization was significant in the multivariable model (P = .04). Values less than zero indicate fewer inpatient days in the Respite Care group.
