Utilization of Outpatient Care Resources

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics, 1983 - Medical - 66 pages
 

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Page 49 - National Center for Health Statistics: Eighth Revision International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States.
Page 56 - X-ray given in a physician's office or an outpatient clinic is considered to be a physician visit. Physician visits to hospital inpatients are not included. If a physician is called to the house to see more than one person, the call is considered to be a separate physician visit for each person about whom the physician was consulted. A physician visit is associated with the person about whom the advice was sought, even if that person did not actually see or consult the physician. For example, if...
Page 56 - A physician visit is defined as consultation with a physician, in person or by telephone, for examination, diagnosis, treatment, or advice. The visit is considered to be a physician visit if the service is provided directly by the physician or by a nurse or other person acting under a physician's supervision. For the purpose of this definition "physician" includes doctors of medicine and osteopathic physicians.
Page 56 - doctor" is used in the interview rather than "physician" because of popular usage. However, the concept toward which all instructions are directed is that which is described here. Physician visits for services provided on a mass basis are not included in the tabulations. A service received on a mass basis is defined as any service involving only a single test (eg, test for diabetes) or a single procedure (eg, smallpox vaccination) when this single service was administered identically to all persons...
Page 55 - For prevalence statistics, such as number of persons with speech impairments or number of persons classified by time interval since last physician visit, figures are first calculated for each calendar quarter by averaging estimates for all weeks of interviewing in the quarter. Prevalence data for a year are then obtained by averaging the four quarterly figures. For other types of statistics— namely those measuring the number of occurrences during a specified time period— such as incidence of...
Page 56 - For diagnostic information, the household respondent can, at best, pass on to the interviewer only the information the physician has given to the family. For conditions not medically attended, diagnostic information is often no more than a description of symptoms. However, other facts, such as the number of disability days caused by the condition, can be obtained more accurately from household members than from any other source since only the persons concerned are in a position to report information...
Page 43 - Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs 320-389 Diseases of the circulatory system 390-459 Diseases of the respiratory system 460-519 Diseases of the digestive system 520-579 Diseases of the genitourinary system 580-629 Complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium...
Page 53 - Places providing some form of nursing, personal, or domiciliary care were classified according to the primary or predominant service provided as follows: 1. A nursing care home is defined as one in which 50 percent...
Page 56 - Survey (NHIS) counts visits to a dentist's office for treatment or advice, including services by a technician or hygienist acting under the supervision of a dentist, as dental visits.
Page 55 - The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is the principal source of information on the health of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States and is one of the major data collection programs of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

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