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New Publications

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Summary, National Health Statistics Report No. 3

National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006       Outpatient Department Summary, National Health Statistics Report No. 4

Emergency Department Visits by Persons Recently Discharged from U.S. Hospitals, National Health Statistics Report No. 6

National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, National Health Statistics Report No. 7

Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates 2006, National Health Statistics Report No. 8

Characteristics of Office-Based Physicians and Their Practices: United States, 2005-06

 New Data Products

 The 2006 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey public  use micro-data file and the 2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey public use data files are now available for downloading. Please be sure to download the documentation files as well. SAS, Stata, and SPSS files for reading and formatting the data are also available. (7/11/2008)

Attention Stata Users!

Since the release of the 2005 NAMCS and NHAMCS public use files, Stata users have had the option to download fully prepared Stata datasets (these are .exe files, which will uncompress to .dta files) rather than having to create their own files. In past years, Stata users had to create NAMCS and NHAMCS datasets using a Stata infile command with the public use files in ASCII format. This is still possible using the .do and .dct files provided in the NAMCS and NHAMCS Stata area, should anyone wish to do so.

      NOTE: Stata files for 2006 will be available soon.

Attention Health Care Providers!

The course entitled "National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Methods: What Clinicians Need to Know" is now eligible for 1.25 hours of Category 1 continuing medical education

      (CME), 1.4 hours of continuing nursing education (CNE) and 0.1 continuing education (CEU) credits. Please contact our office for more information.

NAMCS and NHAMCS Data in the News

"Aging Population Makes for More Visits to the Doctor's   Office, Hospitals Also Facing Increasing Workload"--US News and World Report, 8/7/2008

"ER Care in Critical Condition"-- NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, 8/6/2008

"Emergency Room Waits Getting Longer: In 1997, a typical ER adult patient waited 22 minutes for treatment, compared to 30 minutes in 2004.  That equals 'an extra 1,550 years that Americans spent waiting in EDs' write the researchers."--CBS News, 1/17/08

"Emergency Care Waits Found to Be on Rise:  Patients are waiting longer for care in the nation's emergency rooms, a potentially deadly result of the shrinking number of emergency departments and rising demand for emergency services, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School."--Washington Post, 1/15/08

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