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Outpatient medical care exceeds one billion visits
Healthcare Strategist Trend Watch, June 30, 2006
People made more than one billion visits to doctor's offices, emergency rooms, and hospital outpatient departments in 2004, according to a report released in June by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report also showed that in the past decade, ambulatory care visits have increased at three times the rate of population growth. The report is the latest in an annual series that provides a comprehensive analysis of visits to ambulatory healthcare settings, according to the CDC release.
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