You would like to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of delivering health services through your clinic. After selecting a 10% sample of all patient visits during the past six months, you are able to characterize the patient population who used your clinic in terms of age, race, sex, method of referral, diagnostic category, therapy provided, method of payment, daily patient load, and clinic staff work schedules. Which of the following study designs most appropriately characterizes this situation?
A) Cross-sectional study
B) Case-control study
C) Prospective cohort study
D) Historical prospective cohort study
E) Clinical trial

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A cross-sectional study is appropriate here as it involves analyzing data from a sample at one specific point in time to assess the characteristics of the patient population and the clinic's service delivery.

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