Drug Utilization in Office Practice: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey,1990

摘要

In 1990 an estimated 704 million office visits were made to office-basedphysicians in the United States. About 60 percent of the visits were classified as a 'drug visit,' a visit during which one drug or more was prescribed or provided to the patient. This resulted in office-based physicians prescribing or providing an estimated 759 million medications to their patients in 1990. This report describes the drug utilization for 1 year according to data collected in the 1990 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). NAMCS, a year-long sample survey of the nation's nonfederal, office-based physicians is conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Care Statistics. A summary of general findings from the 1990 NAMCS and reports on drug utilization in office practice, 1985 and 1980 have been published.