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Advance
Data From Vital and Health Statistics |
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1999 Outpatient Department Summary
Advance Data
321. National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1999 Outpatient Department
Summary. 28 pp. (PHS)
2001-1250.
View/download PDF 1.4 MB
In 1999, an estimated 84.6 million visits (about 31.1 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 1999 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which measures health care utilization across various types of providers.
Data Highlights:
Females
had higher OPD visit rates than males in the age groups between 15 and 44
years. From 1992 through 1999, female and male visits increased by 36
percent and 42 percent, respectively.
General
medicine clinics represented 61.5 percent of all OPD visits.
The
four most frequent illness-related diagnoses were acute upper respiratory
infections, essential hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and malignant
neoplasms.
About
three-quarters of OPD visits had at least one diagnostic or screening
service ordered or provided.
The
drug mention rate rose by 101 percent from 75 medications per 100 OPD
visits in 1992 to 150 in 1999.
Keywords: Outpatient Department Visits, Diagnoses, Injury, ICD
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October 15, 2008
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