Exploring a hospital's response to children who have no fixed address.

Autor: Booth S; Social Work Department, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., Azzopardi E; Social Work Department, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., Nguyen K; Social Work Department, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA [Emerg Med Australas] 2023 Apr; Vol. 35 (2), pp. 350-352. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 21.
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.14163
Abstrakt: Objective: To explore how a tertiary metropolitan public healthcare provider supported children who presented with 'no fixed address' (NFA).
Methods: A retrospective data mining of the electronic medical records of patients with an NFA classification, over 12 months period.
Results: Data mining identified 475 NFA patients, 6% were children. Of the children with NFA, 96% attended the ED only; 10% were referred internally for psychosocial support; 34% had existing psychosocial services; 69% had no recorded discharge location; and 48% self-discharged prior to assessment.
Conclusion: The hospital system did not effectively identify or respond to the psychosocial needs of children with NFA.
(© 2022 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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