National ambulatory medical care survey: 2000 summary.

DK Cherry, DA Woodwell - Advance data, 2002 - europepmc.org
Objective This report describes ambulatory care visits made to physician offices within the
United States. Statistics are presented on selected characteristics of the physician's practice,
the patient, and the visit. Highlights of trends in physician office visit utilization from 1997
through 2000 are also presented. Method The data presented in this report were collected
from the 2000 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). NAMCS is part of the
ambulatory care component of the National Health Care Survey that measures health care …

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2001 summary.

DK Cherry, CW Burt, DA Woodwell - Advance Data, 2003 - europepmc.org
Objective This report describes ambulatory care visits made to physician offices in the
United States. Statistics are presented on selected characteristics of the physician's practice,
the patient, and the visit. Results highlighting new items on continuity of care are presented.
They include whether the visit was the first or a followup for a problem, number of visits to
this provider in the past 12 months for established patients, and whether other physicians
shared care for the patient's problem. The report also highlights estimates of practice …