Patient Engagement January 29, 2024
Sara Heath

The number of kids visiting an urgent care or retail health clinic increased from 21% in 2021 to 28 percent in 2022, CDC said.

More kids are accessing healthcare in a retail setting, with care access in grocery store clinics, pharmacy clinics, and urgent care centers up from 2021 to 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

These figures reflect separate data showing the growing popularity of urgent care and retail health clinics, driven in large part by their convenient locations.

Using data from the National Health Interview Survey, CDC found that, in 2022, 28.4 percent of kids up to age 17 had visited a retail health clinic or urgent care...

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Topics: Patient / Consumer, Primary care, Provider, Retail care, Survey / Study, Trends, Urgent care
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