CDC: Fewer physicians reporting hospital visits

[CAL/AAEM News Service]

CDC: Fewer physicians reporting hospital visits 

Source: The American Hospital Association ( http://www.aha.org )
Date: May 1, 2008


An estimated 308,900 office-based physicians were in practice in 2005-2006, according to data reported today from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. About 56.8% of them reported making at least one hospital visit the week before the survey, a 26% decline from 2001, while 9% reported providing emergency department care. Use of clinical health information technology by office-based physicians was up 46% from 2003-2004, while use of computerized prescription order-entry was up 92%. Half of office-based physicians practiced in primary care specialties in 2005-2006, 28.6% in medical specialties and 21.5% in surgical specialties. For more on the survey, see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_13/sr13_166.pdf

Abid Mogannam &
Brian Potts MD, MBA
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

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