Homeless mentally ill patients in the community: Results of a general hospital emergency room study
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Community Mental Health Journal
- Vol. 26 (5) , 415-423
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00761068
Abstract
Previous inattention to the specific circumstances of homeless mentally ill individuals in general hospital settings is discussed. Homeless mentally ill individuals who presented for emergency psychiatric care in a public general hospital setting exhibited distinctive patterns of service utilization and showed evidence of being a uniquely disabled, rootless, and impoverished subgroup of mentally ill individuals. The characteristics of homeless users of general hospital psychiatric services may provide some important clues to system-wide deficits in community-based care for the members of this population.Keywords
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