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Health-Related Social Needs Among Emergency Department Patients with HIV.

Gerber E, Gelberg L, Cowan E, Mijanovich T, Shelley D, Gulati R, Wittman I, Doran KM. Health-Related Social Needs Among Emergency Department Patients with HIV. AIDS and behavior. 2021 Jun 1; 25(6):1968-1974.

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Abstract:

Little research has examined the health-related social needs of emergency department (ED) patients who have HIV. We surveyed a random sample of public hospital ED patients and compared the social needs of patients with and without HIV. Social needs were high among all ED patients, but patients with HIV reported significantly higher levels of food insecurity (65.0% vs. 50.3%, p? = 0.01) and homelessness or living doubled up (33.8% vs. 21.0%, p? < 0.01) than other patients. Our findings suggest the importance of assessing social needs in ED-based interventions for patients with HIV.




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