PMID: 33201624Nov 18, 2020Paper

[Homeless patients in Rotterdam with a need for medical care: data from the Rotterdam Street Doctors' office in the years 2006-2017].

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Marcel T SlockersEd F van Beeck

Abstract

To describe the demographic and medical characteristics and changes of the patients who visit the Rotterdam Street Doctors' office hours. Retrospective study of registered patient contacts from 2006-2017. Street doctors registered age, gender and ICPC diagnoses of patients in a GP information system. The characteristics of these patients have been analysed for three periods of four years: 2006-2009, 2010-2013, 2014-2017. For each of these periods, the number of individual patients visiting the Rotterdam Street Doctors' office hours at least once, have been documented. Data from the period 2014-2017, have been used to describe characteristics of homeless patients and have been compared with a regular GP practice. At the street doctors' office, patients with mental problems are most often documented, followed by patients with heart diseases and endocrine problems. Serious illnesses that require extra care are registered , such as drug and alcohol addiction, HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. Patients with mental problems and trauma have a larger share at the street doctor's office than in a regular GP practice. The proportion of women has increased since 2006 as has the proportion of elderly patients. The proportion of patients w...Continue Reading

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