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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Center for Health Statistics. Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E243090V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States
Summary:  View help for Summary Data on visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments and hospital emergency departments by selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information about measures, definitions, and changes over time. Note that the data file available here has more recent years of data than what is shown in the PDF or Excel version. Data for 2017 physician office visits are not available. SOURCE: NCHS, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. For more information on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, see the corresponding Appendix entries at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus17_appendix.pdf. Read less
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://data.cdc.gov/National-Center-for-Health-Statistics/Visits-to-physician-offices-hospital-outpatient-de/xt86-xqxz/about_data

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms african americans; emergency service; hospital; hospitals; outpatients; physicians; physicians offices; sex; european continental ancestry group; continental population groups; age; disasters; health us; sdoh-use-of-health-care
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes (Downloaded 1/9/2026)


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