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Table 3 Demographics of patients seen in Roundhouse clinical services, February 1, 2022– January 31, 2023, overall and housing resident subset

From: Facilitating exit from encampments: combining low-barrier transitional housing with stabilizing treatment for substance related problems

 

Patients seen in roundhouse clinical programs

All

Housing residents only

Visit volume

 Unique patients

1722

59 ^

 Total encounters

7468

425

 Visits/Patient, mean (range, SD)

4.3 (1–99, 7.5)

7.2 (1–53, 7.4)*

 Average length of stay in hours (range, SD)

11.5 (0–40, 5.7)

5.0 (0–38, 7.4)

Demographics

 Female, n (%)

467 (27.1%)

23 (39%)

 Mean age in years (range, SD)

42.5 (19–79, 10.6)

40.7 (25–64, 9.2)

Race/Ethnicity, n (%)

 Non-hispanic white

1039 (60.3%)

28 (47.5%)

 Non-hispanic black

369 (21.4%)

15 (25.4%)

 Hispanic

211 (12.3%)

10 (16.9%)

 Other race

102 (5.9%)

6 (10.2%)

Condition prevalence

 Opioid use disorder ^^

1441 (83.7%)

55 (93.2%)

 Cocaine use disorder ^^

928 (53.9%)

43 (72.9%)

 Alcohol use disorder ^^

808 (46.9%)

25 (42.4%)

 MH Diagnosis (non-SUD dx)

1047 (60.8%)

38 (64.4%)

Service delivery

 Episodes of emergency methadone treatment for opioid withdrawal (72 h rule)

704

29

 Episodes resulting in patients accepted to OTP after ≤ 72 h methadone induction ^^^

566

26

  1. MH mental health, SUD substance use disorder, OTP opioid treatment program, ED Emergency Department
  2. ^ During the initial 12 months of program operation, a total of 100 people lived in the 60 available beds at the Roundhouse (n > 60 because of turn-over among residents). During this time 59 of the residents utilized the Roundhouse clinical services at least one time. These are the 59 people reflected in this table
  3. *Roundhouse residents could utilize clinical services prior to, during, or after their time in residence, thus denominator of observation time is the same for all patients and equal to the study period (2/1/22–1/31/23)
  4. ^^SUD Diagnoses are assessed via a 2-year history of billed diagnoses in the electronic health record
  5. ^^^Metric reflects separate episodes of use of methadone to treat opioid withdrawal for up to 72 h. This does not represent all patients who were treated for opioid withdrawal in the Roundhouse, but only those who received methadone treatment