A Better Way to Manage Chronic Medical Conditions in Homeless Emergency Department Patients

JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association

Dec 22, 202035:41Science & Medicine

Homeless patients with chronic medical conditions who need long-term care often repeatedly present to emergency departments to receive treatment. Following a performance improvement analysis, clinicians at UCSF developed...

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