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National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2006
Title
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2006 [electronic resource] United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics
Edition
2010-06-11
Published
Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2010
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Notes
Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2019-06-13.
United States
Visits to the emergency and outpatient departments of noninstitutional general and short-stay hospitals within the 50 states and the District of Columbia, which had an average length of stay of less than 30 days, or to hospitals whose specialty was general (medical or surgical) or children's general. Excluded were federal hospitals, hospital units within institutions, and hospitals with less than six beds staffed for patient use.
Type of File
Numeric
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Summary
The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) provides data from samples of patient records selected from emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) of a national sample of hospitals. The resulting national estimates describe the use of hospital ambulatory medical care services in the United States. For the 2006 survey, data were collected from 236 OPDs and 464 EDs. Among the variables included are age, race, and sex of the patient, reason for the visit, physician's diagnoses, cause of injury, surgical procedures (OPDs only), medication therapy, and expected source of payment. For 2006, additional updates and revisions have been made to both the emergency department and outpatient department data, including modifications to pre-existing variables and the inclusion of new variables pertaining but not limited to electronic medical record systems and diagnostic screening services.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28321.v1
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Format
Data Sets / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2019
Series
Contents
Emergency Department Data
Outpatient Department Data
Subjects
Genre/Form
Data sets.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
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