1978 summary : National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

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• Personal Author:
  Koch, Hugo ; McLemore, Thomas
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Health Resources Utilization Statistics.
• Description:
  During 1978 an estimated 584.5 million office visits--an average of 2.8 per person per year--were meade to nonfederally employed office based physicians in the conterminous United States. These and other estimates presented in this report of highlight the findincgs of the National 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. With cooperation from the American Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association, the survey sample is selected from a list of non-federally employed doctors of medicine and 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.
  
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• Subjects:
  Ambulatory Care Data Collection Emergency Service, Hospital Health Care Surveys Humans Office Visits Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
• Source:
  Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 60 ; DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 80-1250
• Series:
  National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
• 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
• Pages in Document:
  11 Pages
• Issue:
  60
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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