Visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and hospital emergency departments, by age, sex, and race: United States

Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Metadata Last Checked: June 26, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-04-21

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.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "009:20" ]
identifier	https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/xt86-xqxz
issued	2021-06-03
landingPage	https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus
programCode	[ "009:020" ]
spatial	United States
temporal	2000/2018
theme	[ "National Center for Health Statistics" ]