OBJECTIVE This report describes ambulatory care visits made to physician offices within the United States. Statistics are presented on selected physician patient, and visit characteristics for aggregated ambulatory care visits. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected from the 1995 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). NAMCS is part of the ambulatory care component ...

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare coverage expanded in 2011 to fully cover annual preventive care visits. We assessed the impact of coverage expansion, using 2007-13 data from primary care patients of Medicare-eligible age at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (204,388 patient-years), which serves people in four counties near San Francisco, California. We compared trends in preventive...

BACKGROUND The primary objective was to estimate the national burden of illness in Canada for diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) for 2011. Secondary objectives included estimating the national incidence and prevalence of DFU, and the 3-year average cost for DFU incident cases. METHODS Analyses were conducted using four national databases for the period April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2011, with cases being...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To establish the current outpatient workload for otologic conditions in the elderly and to estimate its potential increase based on an anticipated aging population. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of a national database. METHODS All outpatient clinic visits for patients aged ≥ 65 years receiving one of six common otologic diagnoses from 2005 to 2007 in the United...

Background: Comedone formation has an essential role in pathophysiology of acne, therefore destroying of comedones and preventing of comedone formation is very important in acne treatment. Objective: To determine the effect of superficial peeling with 70% glycolic acid in the improvement of acne. Patients and Methods: In this open clinical trial without control group, 30 patients with acn...

OBJECTIVES This report describes ambulatory care visits made to physician offices within the United States. Statistics are presented on selected physician, patient, and visit characteristics of ambulatory care visits. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected from the 1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). The NAMCS is part of the ambulatory care component of the...