44 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
44.3 Description
- Information about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in US
- Data includes patient characteristics (e.g. age, sex, race/ethnicity), visit characteristics (e.g. reason for visit, diagnosis, services ordered and provided, treatments) and physician and practice characteristics
44.6 Collection Methodology
- National sample of visits to non-federally employed office-based physicians who are primary engaged in direct patient care in US
- Excludes anesthesiology, pathology, and radiology
- Separate sample of community health centers added in 2006 (visits to physicians and non-physician clinicians)
- Each physician reports on a systematic random sample of visits during a randomly assigned 1-week reporting period
- Because of methodology changes, 2017 is still being harmonized. See https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/notice.htm
44.7 Available at
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/datasets_documentation_related.htm
44.12 Special Notes
- See National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) for related survey directed at the facility rather than the physician.
- See https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/notice.htm for data notices.