National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) Emergency Department (ED) 2020 Public Use File (PUF)

A data system of visits to emergency departments. Note that the unit of observation is visits, not patients - this distinction is important since a single patient can make multiple visits.

Usage

ed2020

Format

An object of class survey.design2 (inherits from survey.design) with 14860 rows and 1018 columns.

Source

• SAS data: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS/sas/ed2020_sas.zip

• Survey design variables: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS/sas/readme2020-ed-sas.txt

• SAS formats: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS/sas/ed20for.txt

• Documentation: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS/doc20-ed-508.pdf

• Summary Tables: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhamcs/web_tables/2020-nhamcs-ed-web-tables-508.pdf