Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates for 2006

This report presents summary information on the utilization of ambulatory medical care across physician offices and hospital emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs). Physician offices are further classified by the physician specialty: primary care, surgical, and medical. The tables present total visits across all settings as well as percent distributions by setting type. Data are from NAMCS and NHAMCS, which are part of the ambulatory care component of the National Health Care Surveys, a family of provider-based surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.