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Advance
Data From Vital and Health Statistics |
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2000 Outpatient Department Summary
Advance Data
327. National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2000 Outpatient Department
Summary. 28 pp. (PHS)
2002-1250.
View/download PDF 1.2 MB
In 2000, an estimated 83.3 million visits (about 30.4 visits per 100 persons) were made to outpatient departments (OPDs) of non-Federal, short-stay or general hospitals in the United States. This report presents data on OPD visits from the 2000 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a nationally representative survey of hospital OPD utilization. Hospital, patient, and visit characteristics are described.
Data Highlights:
Approximately
61 percent of physician-supervised OPD visits were to general medical
clinics.
Private
insurance was the most used form of payment, accounting for 38.5 percent
of visits, followed by Medicaid and Medicare (22.1 percent and 16.9
percent, respectively).
About
130 million drugs were prescribed at approximately 64 percent of OPD
visits.
Keywords: outpatient department visits, diagnoses, clinics
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October 15, 2008
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