National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2007 / United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics .

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Human Services. Centers for Disease Control.

Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 28442.

ICPSR ; 28442

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2010-06-24.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) provides data from samples of patient records selected from emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) of a national sample of hospitals. The resulting national estimates describe the use of hospital ambulatory medical care services in the United States. For the 2007 survey, data were collected from 202 OPDs and 432 EDs. Among the variables included are age, race, and sex of the patient, reason for the visit, physician's diagnoses, cause of injury, surgical procedures (OPDs only), medication therapy, and expected source of payment. For 2007, additional updates and revisions have been made to both the emergency department and outpatient department data, including modifications to pre-existing variables pertaining but not limited to electronic medical records. Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28442.v1

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-01-05.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.