
Ambulatory Health Care Data
The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is designed to meet the need for objective, reliable information about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in the United States. Findings are based on a sample of visits to nonfederally employed office-based physicians who are primarily engaged in direct patient care and, starting in 2006, a separate sample of visits to community health centers.
The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) is designed to collect data on the utilization and provision of ambulatory care services in hospital emergency and outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery locations. Findings are based on a national sample of visits to the emergency departments, outpatient departments, and ambulatory surgery locations of noninstitutional general and short-stay hospitals.
The National Electronic Health Records Survey (NEHRS) is designed to collect information on office-based physicians’ adoption and use of electronic health record (EHR) systems, practice information, patient engagement, controlled substances prescribing practices, use of health information exchange (HIE), and documentation and burden associated with medical record systems. Findings are based on a sample of nonfederally employed office-based physicians in the U.S. who are primarily engaged in direct patient care.
The National Health Care Surveys (including NAMCS, NHAMCS, and NHCS) are working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs: Promoting Interoperability (PI) (formerly known as Meaningful Use (MU)) and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Click here to find out more.
Data Products
- 2018 NHAMCS ED public use data file (11/2020)
- 2017 NHAMCS Emergency Department Summary Tables pdf icon[PDF – 804 KB] (1/2020)
- 2014 NAMCS Community Health Center public use data file (12/2019)
- 2014 NAMCS – Community Health Center Summary Tables pdf icon[PDF – 584 KB] (12/2019)
- 2017 NHAMCS Emergency Department Public Use Data File (11/2019)
- Diagnosis Master Category List, 2016 pdf icon[PDF – 444 KB] (7/2019)
Publications
- Emergency Department Visits for Influenza and Pneumonia: United States, 2016–2018 (3/2021)
- Emergency Department Visit Rates by Selected Characteristics: United States, 2018 (3/2021)
- Respiratory Illness Emergency Department Visits in the National Hospital Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey pdf icon[PDF – 993 KB] (1/2021)
- Opioid-involved Emergency Department Visits in the National Hospital Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey pdf icon[PDF – 402 KB] (12/2020)
- Urban-rural Differences in Visits to Office-based Physicians by Adults With Hypertension:United States, 2014–2016 pdf icon[PDF – 276 KB] (11/2020)
- Emergency Department Visits Among Adults Aged 60 and Over: United States, 2014–2017 (6/2020)