Publications by authors named "Sara Zuiderveen"
Background: Housing insecurity is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients. Despite a surge of interest in screening for patients' social needs including housing insecurity, little research has examined ED social needs interventions. We worked together with government and community partners to develop and pilot test a homelessness prevention intervention targeted to ED patients with drug or unhealthy alcohol use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To develop a screening tool to identify emergency department (ED) patients at risk of entering a homeless shelter, which could inform targeting of interventions to prevent future homelessness episodes.
Data Sources: Linked data from (1) ED patient baseline questionnaires and (2) citywide administrative homeless shelter database.
Study Design: Stakeholder-informed predictive modeling utilizing ED patient questionnaires linked with prospective shelter administrative data.
Study Objective: Housing instability is prevalent among emergency department (ED) patients and is known to adversely affect health. We aim to determine the incidence and timing of homeless shelter entry after an ED visit among patients who are not currently homeless.
Methods: We conducted a random-sample survey of ED patients at an urban public hospital from November 2016 to September 2017.
Efficient targeting of homelessness prevention services for families.
Am J Public Health
December 2013
Objectives: We developed and evaluated a model to target homelessness prevention services to families more efficiently.
Methods: We followed 11,105 families who applied for community-based services to prevent homelessness in New York City from October 1, 2004, to June 30, 2008, through administrative records, using Cox regression to predict shelter entry.
Results: Over 3 years, 12.