TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Organized Ambulatory Care
A1  - Burns, Lawton Robert
Y1  - 2021
N1  - 
T2  - The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers
AB  - Ambulatory  care  accounts  for  approximately  one-quarter  to  one-third  of  healthcare  spending  in  the  United  States.1  Ambulatory  care  includes  physician  offices,  hospital  outpatient  departments,  hospital  emergency  departments  (EDs),  and  other  sites.  According  to  the  Centers  for  Disease  Control  and  Prevention  (CDC),  the  number  of  ambulatory  visits  has  been  growing  steadily  in  the  new  millennium,  rising  from  1  billion  to  1.25  billion  between  2000  and  2011.  The  volume  of  such  visits  going  to  physician  offices  may  be  declining,  however.  CDC  data  suggest  that  physician  office  visits  declined  from  1  billion  (2009-2010)  to  884  million  (2016).  During  the  same  period,  visits  to  hospital  EDs  remained  relatively  stable,  rising  slightly  from  133  million  (2009-2010)  to  145  million  (2016).  The  remainder  of  the  increase  occurred  in  hospital  outpatient  departments  (see  Chapter  11)  and  a  wide  array  of  newer,  “organized  ambulatory  care”  settings.2  These  settings  are  profiled  in  the  following  sections.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1184093997
ER  -