Booth Richard G
School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2006 Dec;27(10):1067-77. doi: 10.1080/01612840600943713.
Homelessness among people with psychiatric illness is at an all time high. Many explanations for this phenomenon exist, including the incidence of discharge from inpatient hospital directly into the streets or shelter system. With little known about this unseen social issue afflicting many mental health consumers, this manuscript provides recommendations for using electronic patient records (EPR) as a conduit to capture housing and homelessness related information. With the increased use of EPRs in the Canadian health care system, the research and clinical benefits of this technology have only recently begun to be realized in mental health care.
患有精神疾病的人群中无家可归的现象正处于历史最高水平。对于这一现象存在多种解释，包括从住院部直接出院后流落街头或进入收容系统的情况。由于对这一困扰众多心理健康消费者的无形社会问题知之甚少，本文提供了利用电子病历（EPR）作为获取住房和无家可归相关信息渠道的建议。随着加拿大医疗保健系统中电子病历使用的增加，这项技术在精神卫生保健方面的研究和临床益处直到最近才开始得到认识。
