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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Am Ethnol. 2021 Nov 7;48(4):474–488. doi: 10.1111/amet.13032

Table 1.

Patient characteristics from the California-based health care hot-spotting program where primary fieldwork took place. The left-hand column represents demographics for all patients (N = 140) enrolled in the program. The right-hand column represents data from a medical chart review, listing health conditions for a representative subset of study participants (n = 41) at the field site.

Male (63%) 70% had four or more chronic-disease diagnoses
Black (55%) Mean of 16 prescriptions
Latinx (16%) 58% diagnosed with depression
White (16%) 72% diagnosed with substance use disorder
Asian/Pacific Islander (11%) 83% had been homeless at least once
Other (2%)