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    • Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States

    Metadata Updated: April 23, 2025

    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.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Metadata Created Date April 21, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 23, 2025

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    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Metadata Created Date April 21, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 23, 2025
    Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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    Data First Published 2021-06-03
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-21
    Category National Center for Health Statistics
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    Temporal 2000/2018

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