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Medication Therapy In Ambulatory Medical Care Advance Data 290. An estimated 1.1 billion medications were provided or prescribed at ambulatory medical care visits, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The report titled "Medication Therapy in Ambulatory Medical Care" describes medications provided or prescribed in ambulatory care settings. The utilization of drug therapy in ambulatory care is described along three dimensions: number of drugs provided or prescribed (drug mentions), whether a visit had any drug mentions (drug visit), and the average number of drug mentions per 100 visits (drug mention rate). Annual use of medication therapy was determined using data collected in the 1992 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). Data Highlights:
Keywords: medication therapy, NAMCS, NHAMCS, drug mention
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January 11, 2007
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