National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1995-96 Series
13, No. 142. National Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey, 1995-96. 132 pp. (PHS) 2000-1713. GPO stock number and price forthcoming During 1995-96, an estimated 1.4 billion visits were made to physician offices in the United States, an annual average of 715.8 million visits according to a new report "National Ambulatory Medical Survey, 1995-96." Statistics are presented on selected physician, patient and visit characteristics. The data in this report were collected in the 1995 and 1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys (NAMCS). The NAMCS is part of the ambulatory care component of the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) which measures health care utilization across a variety of providers. Data
Highlights: Back problems (upper and lower) accounted for the largest proportion of injury-related visits overall (11.1 percent). Keywords: office visits, physicians, diagnoses, injury, diagnostic services, medications
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