Abstract:IntroductionUnhoused individuals have high rates of suicidal ideation (SI) and suicidal behaviors (SB), but few have studied the relative timing of homelessness and SI/SB. Our study examines the potential to use state‐wide electronic health record data from Rhode Island's health information exchange (HIE) to identify temporal relationships, service utilization, and associations of SI/SB among unhoused individuals.MethodsWe use timestamped HIE data for 5368 unhoused patients to analyze service utilization and t… Show more
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