National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, Patient Visits, 1991. Data TapeDocumentation

摘要

The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) provides data on ambulatorymedical care rendered in physicians' offices. The NAMCS is a survey based on a sample of patient visits to a national sample of office-based physicians. The survey obtains information on the volume of office visits by age, race, and sex of the patient and by selected physician characteristics such as type of specialty and geographic location. In 1991 the NAMCS sampled about 33,795 patient records from the 1,354 doctors who participated in the survey.