Characteristics of office-based physician visits, 2018

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• Personal Author:
  Ashman, Jill J. ; Santo, Loredana ; Okeyode, Titilayo
• Description:
  In 2018, 85% of adults and 96% of children in the United States had a usual place to receive health care (1,2). Most children and adults listed a doctor's office as the usual place they received care (1,2). In 2018, an estimated 860.4 million office-based physician visits occurred in the United States (3,4). This report examines visit rates by age and sex. It also examines visit characteristics-including insurance status, reason for visit, and services- by age using data from the 2018 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS).
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Name as Subject:
  National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (U.S.) ; National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Pages in Document:
  7 Pages
• Issue:
  408
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
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  urn:sha-512:ab655e2587939a7e863a46da8c620a2cf6dc2d01e1a8c0721529e7a2e17cee26f44b9864a3c3491326a17079c530efa9edab6acdbdfe555118656e439ee82fc0
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/105509/cdc_105509_DS1.pdf
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