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National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1997 Emergency Department Summary Advance Data 304. An estimated 94.9 million visits were made to hospital emergency departments (ED's) in non-Federal, short-stay, or general hospitals according to a recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics.This report titled "National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1997 Emergency Department Summary" presents data on ED visits from the 1997 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). The 1997 NHAMCS included several new areas of data collection that include mode of arrival, is patient pregnant, does patient belong to an HMO, immediacy with which patient should be seen, presenting level of pain, and time seen by physician. These areas are in addition to the data collected by patient, hospital, and visit characteristics. This survey is a national probability survey conducted by the Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data Highlights:
Approximately 35.1 million ED visits were made for injury and poisoning, a rate of 13.2 visits per 100 persons. Keywords: emergency department visits, diagnoses, injury, ICD-9-C
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