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Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital
emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States
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- hhs
- cdc
- age
- disasters
- hospital
- hospitals
- outpatients
- physicians
- sex
Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States
Description
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.
Dataset Details
- Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Temporal Coverage: 2000/2018
- Geographic Coverage: United States
- Last Modified: 2025-04-21
- Contact: National Center for Health Statistics ([email protected])
Source
Original data can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus
Usage
You can load this dataset using:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/visits-to-physician-offices-hospital-outpatient-de')
License
This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works