Data and Sample The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is a nationally representative survey of physicians providing office-based ambulatory medical care in the United States. The survey has been conducted annually since 1973 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The target universe of [...]

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Considerable progress has been made in identifying distinctive patterns of medical care among racial and ethnic groups in the general healthcare setting. However, relatively little is known about how medical care for workers suffering occupational injuries or illnesses varies according to patients’ race and ethnicity. In this article, we report the results of an exploratory [...]

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