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

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 an emergency department–based team who work with the community to provide care for this challenging population. Hemal Kanzaria, MD, and Jack Chase, MD, discuss how UCSF has addressed this clinical problem. Related Article(s) available here

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A Better Way to Manage Chronic Medical Conditions in Homeless Emergency Department Patients is an episode from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association.

This episode is 35:41 long.

This episode was published on Dec 22, 2020.

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