Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States
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.
Columns
| Name | Socrata field name | Column name in sgr mount | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIT_NUM | unit_num | unit_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of UNIT that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the UNIT variable. |
| STUB_NAME_NUM | stub_name_num | stub_name_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of STUB_NAME that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the STUB_NAME variable. |
| STUB_NAME | stub_name | stub_name | Text | Description of the population category pertaining to the estimate. |
| INDICATOR | indicator | indicator | Text | Measure being estimated. |
| UNIT | unit | unit | Text | Unit of measurement of the estimate. |
| PANEL | panel | panel | Text | Submeasures of INDICATOR. Datasets may have multiple panels. |
| AGE | age | age | Text | Age group pertaining to the estimate. |
| SE | se | se | Number | Calculated standard error of the estimate. |
| FLAG | flag | flag | Text | Additional information pertaining to the estimate. See the footnotes in the source table (Excel) for more information. |
| AGE_NUM | age_num | age_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of AGE that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the AGE variable. |
| ESTIMATE | estimate | estimate | Number | Calculated estimate of the measure. |
| PANEL_NUM | panel_num | panel_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of PANEL that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the PANEL variable. |
| STUB_LABEL | stub_label | stub_label | Text | Specific population subgroup pertaining to the estimate. |
| STUB_LABEL_NUM | stub_label_num | stub_label_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of STUB_LABEL that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the STUB_LABEL variable. |
| YEAR | year | year | Text | Data year or range of data years pertaining to the estimate. |
| YEAR_NUM | year_num | year_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of YEAR that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the YEAR variable. |