National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2001 Outpatient Department Summary Advance Data
338. National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2001 Outpatient Department
Summary. 32 pp. (PHS) 2003-1250. During 2001, an estimated 83.7 million visits (about 29.9 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 2001 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a national probability sample survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Care Statistics. Data Highlights: Approximately 60.5 percent of physician-supervised OPD visits were to general medical clinics, and 13.2 percent were to surgery clinics.
Private
insurance was the most frequent source of payment, accounting for 36.9
percent of visits, followed by Medicaid and Medicare (24.2 percent and
16.1 percent, respectively). About one-third of all OPD visits (32.9 percent) were to the patient’s primary care physician. Keywords: outpatient department visits, diagnoses, medications, ICD-9-CM
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