{"id":7538,"date":"2024-01-26T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2024-01-25T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:20:56","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-and-adolescents-aged-%e2%89%a417-years-who-visited-an-urgent-care-center-or-a-clinic-in-a-drug-store-or-grocery-store-in-the-past-12-months-by-age-group-and-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/01\/26\/7538\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged \u226417 Years Who Visited an Urgent Care Center or a Clinic in a Drug Store or Grocery Store in the Past 12 Months, by Age Group and Year \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021\u20132022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7303a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/figures\/mm7303a5-F.gif?_=05418\" width=\"541\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of children and adolescents aged \u226417 years who had at least one visit to an urgent care center or a clinic in a drug store or grocery store in the past 12 months increased from 21.6% in 2021 to 28.4% in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This increase was noted for all age groups during 2021\u20132022. In 2021, urgent care or retail health clinic visits were lower among children aged 0\u20135 years than those aged 6\u201311 years and 12\u201317 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, visits for those aged 12\u201317 years (30.3%) were higher than for those aged 6\u201311 years (26.6%). Other observed differences among age groups were not significant.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021\u20132022 data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7303a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7303a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of children and adolescents aged \u226417 years who had at least one visit to an urgent care center or a clinic in a drug store or grocery store in the past 12 months increased from 21.6% in 2021 to 28.4% in 2022. This increase was noted for all age groups during 2021\u20132022. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53770,4008,63673,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}