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United States National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 2017

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General Info
Provider 
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Geography 
United States of America (USA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/2017 - 12/2017
Series or system 
United States National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Emergency
  • Nationally representative
  • Outpatient
Summary 

The United States National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) is based on outpatient visits to physicians and hospital emergency rooms and is designed to collect data on the use of ambulatory care services. Conducted in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, it is a national sample of non-institutional general and short-stay hospitals, excluding federal, military and VA hospitals.

Keywords 
Adverse effects of medical treatments, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Ambulances, Asthma, Back pain, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Breathing difficulty, Burns, COPD, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Cellulitis, Cerebrovascular diseases, Chronic kidney diseases, Chronic respiratory diseases, Congestion, Cough, Diabetes, Diagnosis, Digestive diseases, Drug use disorders, Emergency care, Ethnicity, Exposure to forces of nature, Falls, Fever, Foreign bodies, Gynecological diseases, HIV and AIDS, Headache, Health care services, Health care use, Health insurance, Heart disease, Heart failure, Hospitals, Hypertension, Imaging equipment, Infectious diseases, Influenza, Injuries, Intentional injuries, Interpersonal violence, Ischemic heart disease, Lower respiratory infections, Medical tests, Mental and behavioral disorders, Migraine, Musculoskeletal diseases, Nausea, Noncommunicable diseases, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Otitis media, Pain, Patient counts, Poisonings, Pregnancy complications, Prescriptions, Race, Road traffic injuries, Self-inflicted injuries, Sense organ diseases, Skin diseases, Suffocation, Symptoms, Ultrasound, Unintentional injuries, Upper respiratory infections, Urinary diseases, Urinary tract infections, Urine tests, Vomiting
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021