A Comparison of Emergency Department Visit Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Care Survey: 2020

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  This report describes similarities and differences in estimates on emergency department (ED) visits that use the discontinued National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) and the active National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS), which may be helpful to researchers as they transition to using NHCS data.
• Subjects:
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Health Care Survey
  • Health Care Surveys
  • Health Services Research
• Keywords:
  • Healthcare surveys
  • Hospital encounters
  • Diagnosis
  • Visit disposition
  • Discharge status
• Source:
  National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
• DOI:
  https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/252448
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  44 pdf pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/252448/cdc_252448_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.29 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f0f11c0288c5df055b5bf21d6be4d6dc99313b9f26dc19442cbce4da89a1db9a34d60d9a8e2e14a6d220fbd1f80e47a50d8649a1df0aa62e9923441782186438