1977 Summary: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

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• Description:
  During 1977 an estimated 570.0 million office visits—an average of 2.7 per person per year-were made to nonfederally employed, office-based physicians in the conterminous United States. These and other estimates presented in this report are based on data collected in the NationaJ Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), a probability sample survey conducted yearly by the Division of Health Resources Utilization Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics. The survey sample is selected, with the cooperation of the American Medical Association and American Osteopathic Association, from a list of nonfederally employed doctors of medicine and osteopathy who are principally engaged in office-based practice. In its current scope, NAMCS excludes physicians practicing in Alaska and Hawaii and physicians whose specialties are anesthesiology, pathology, or radiology.
• Subjects:
  Ambulatory Care Family Practice Health Care Surveys Office Visits Primary Health Care
• Source:
  Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 48 ; DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 79-1250
• Series:
  National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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