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Data from the 2014 Urgent Care Chart Survey of 1,778,075 blinded patient visits to more than 800 different urgent care clinics, conducted by the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, show that the top types of diagnosis codes for visits included respiratory (52.9%), wound/trauma/fracture (34.9%), ear (9.2%), dermatologic (7.5%), and genitourinary (7.0%).
The survey’s methodology and data abstraction forms were initially designed in 2008 by researcher Robin M. Weinick, PhD, then an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, and now associate director of RAND Health.
Top Types of Diagnosis Codes at U.S. Urgent Care Centers in 2014