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United States National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 2002 and United States National Hospital Discharge Survey 2002

Contributors 
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Merged records 
United States National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 2002
United States National Hospital Discharge Survey 2002
Data type
Survey
Summary 

The sum of the number of discharges (inpatient data) and unique visits (outpatient data) were taken to be the number of incident cases.

Suggested citation 
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). United States National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 2002 and United States National Hospital Discharge Survey 2002.