Data were included for 1,738,992 patients who presented to 790 hospitals with trauma, of whom 0.7 and 99.3 percent were PEH and housed patients, respectively. The researchers found that PEH were younger than housed patients (mean age, 45.2 versus 53.7 years) and were more often male (84.3 versus 58.9 percent), and they had higher rates of behavioral comorbidity (23.5 versus 11.1 percent). Different injury patterns were sustained by PEH compared with housed patients, including higher proportions of injuries due to assault (36.0 versus 9.6 percent), injuries due to pedestrian strike (15.4 versus 3.2 percent), and head injuries (65.6 versus 49.3 percent). Compared with housed patients, PEH experienced increased adjusted odds of hospitalization on multivariable analysis (adjusted odds ratio, 1.33). On subgroup comparison of PEH with low-income housed patients, the association with hospital admission persisted (adjusted odds ratio, 1.10).

Source: Daily Sun July 11, 2023 07:39 UTC