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New
Publications
National
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Summary, National Health Statistics
Report No. 3
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National Hospital
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006
Outpatient Department Summary,
National
Health Statistics Report No. 4
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Emergency
Department Visits by Persons Recently Discharged from U.S. Hospitals,
National
Health Statistics Report No. 6
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National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006
Emergency Department Summary,
National
Health Statistics Report No. 7
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Ambulatory
Medical Care Utilization Estimates 2006,
National Health Statistics Report No. 8
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Characteristics
of Office-Based Physicians and Their Practices: United States, 2005-06
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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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