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The National Health Care Survey (NHCS) embraces a family of health care provider surveys, obtaining information about the facilities that supply health care, the services rendered, and the characteristics of the patients served.  Each survey is based on a multistage sampling design that includes health care facilities or providers and patient records. Data, that are collected directly from the establishments and/or their records rather than from the patients, identify health care events--such as hospitalizations, surgeries, and long-term stays--and offer the most accurate and detailed data on diagnosis and treatment, as well as on the characteristics of the institutions.  These data are used by policymakers, planners, researchers, and others in the health community to monitor changes in the use of health care resources, to monitor specific diseases, and to examine the impact of new medical technologies, to mention a few.
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This family of surveys includes the following components:

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

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