Drug utilization in office-based practice; a summary of findings, national ambulatory medical care survey, United States, 1980

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• Personal Author:
  Koch, Hugo K.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  This report uses the findings of the 1980 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to highlight the utilization of drugs in the physician's office-based practice. It establishes several unique indexes for measuring the frequency and intensity with which drugs were ordered or provided, using these indexes to evaluate patterns of drug use as they varied with different patients, physicians, diagnoses, and other variables of office-based ambulatory care. The report also presents findings on certain key characteristics of the drugs: their entry status (generic or brand name), prescription status (prescription or over-the-counter), level of potential abuse, and composition (single ingredient or combination form).
• Content Notes:
  Bibliography: p. 13.
• Subjects:
  Drug Prescriptions Drug Utilization
• Source:
  Vital and Health Statistics. Series 13, Data from the national health survey ; no. 65 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 83-1726
• Series:
  Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; iv, 49 p. : graphs ; 28 cm.
• Issue:
  65
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12777/cdc_12777_DS1.pdf
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