TY - BOOK ID - 136328318 TI - Variation in ambulatory health care visits and visits for general checkup by demographic characteristics and insurance status, U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population ages 18-64, 2005 AU - Ezzati-Rice, Trena M. AU - Rohde, Frederick. AU - United States. AU - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (U.S.) PY - 2008 PB - [Rockville, Md.] : Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, DB - UniCat KW - Ambulatory medical care UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136328318 AB - This Statistical Brief examines the differences between men and women in ambulatory health care visits (office based and hospital outpatient) and visits made for a general checkup. The comparisons between men and women are for all non-elderly adults ages 18-64 in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2005 as well as for those ages 18-44 and ages 45-64. This Brief also provides estimates of ambulatory health care visits and visits made for a general checkup by race/ethnicity and insurance status for persons ages 18-64. The estimates are derived from the Household Component of the 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC). Only differences between estimates that are statistically significant at the 0.05 level are discussed in the text. ER -