U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics
Abstract
"Findings and conclusions concerning current and anticipated needs of users of data from the patient-physician encounter in the ambulatory care setting are summarized in this report. The report emphasizes the increasing plurality of data uses and of sites of care in the ambulatory arena and underscores the value of standard definitions to facilitate comparison of different data bases across systems and to achieve as much uniformity as possible at the national level."Prepared by the Subcommittee on Statistical Aspects of Physician Payment Systems.Also available via the World Wide Web
