Locality matters : the influence of geography on general practice activity in Australia 1998-2004 / Stephanie Knox ... [et al.]
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- Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2005
- xv, 149 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
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- 1740244982
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- General practice series (Canberra, A.C.T.) ; no. 17.
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'Locality matters: the influence of geography on general practice in Australia 1998-2004' is the 17th in the General Practice Series produced by the Australian General Practice Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, a collaborating unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It reports results from six years of the BEACH program, April 1998 to March 2004, using data reported by 6019 GPs on 601,900 GP-patient encounters. Each of the seven geographical categories of the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas (RRMA) of Australia are compared with the national average, in terms of GP and patient characteristics, patient reasons for encounter, problems managed and treatments provided. Results are further analysed using the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) Remoteness Structure. Summaries of results for each RRMA category and a summary of trends with increasing remoteness across ASGC categories are provided.
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- Machine derived contents note: 1 .1 A im s 2
- 1.2 Geographical classification 2
- R R M A 2
- ARIA and ASGC Remoteness Structure 3
- 1.3 MBS claims and full-time workload equivalents 3
- 2 M ethods 6
- 2.1 Sam p lin g fram e 6
- 2.2 Recruitm ent m ethods 6
- 2.3 D ata elem en ts 6
- 2.4 Applying RRMA and ASGC Remoteness Structure to the BEACH sample 7
- 2.5 iT e BEACH relational database 7
- 2.6 Statistical m ethods 8
- 2.7 Classification of data 9
- Classification of pharmaceuticals 10
- 2.8 Quality assurance 11
- 2.9 Validity and eliability 11
- 3 The sam ple 12
- 3. G P sam ple size 12
- 3.2 The BE A C H data set 12
- RRMA versus ASGC Remoteness concordance , 17
- BEACH versus M BS claims 17
- 4 The participating G Ps 19
- 4.1 Characteristics of the GPs 19
- 4.2 GP com puter use in the practice 25
- 5 The encounter 28
- 5.1 Types of encounter 28
- 5.2 Distribution of Medicare-claimable encounters 32
- 5.3 Summary of morbidity and management 35
- 6 The patients 38
- 6.1 Patient characteristics 38
- 6.2 Patient reasons for encounter 44
- N um ber of RFEs at encounter 44
- Reasons for encounter by ICPC-2 component 46
- Reasons for encounter by ICPC-2 chapter and common individual REs 49
- 7 Problem s m anage 57
- 7.1 Number of problems managed at the encounter 57
- 7.2 N ature of m orbidity 58
- Types of problems managed 5 58
- Problems managed by ICPC-2 chapter 62
- Most frequently managed problems 6 66
- Most frequently managed new problems 74
- National Health Priority Areas 80
- 8 Treatm ents 83
- 8.1 M edications 83
- Types of medications prescribed or supplied 87
- 8.2 Other treatm ents 93
- C linical treatm en ts 96
- P ro ced u res 10 1
- 9 R eferrals 04
- 9.1 Referral rates 104
- 10 Tests and i vestigations 108
- 10.1 Rates of tests and investigations. 108
- 10.2 Distribution of pathology orders across MBS pathology groups 111
- 10.3 Distribution of imaging tests across MBS groups 116
- 11 um ary of results 119
- 111 RRMA MA.1 119
- 11.2 ASGC Remoteness 29
- 12 Discusiossion 132
- RRM A versus ASG C 132
- National Health Priority Areas 135
- GP visit rates per head of population 136
- 12.1 Methodological issues 137
- onclusion 38.
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- "AIHW Cat. No. GEP 17".
- "A joint report by the University of Sydney and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare".
- "... reports results from six years of the BEACH program, April 1998 to March 2004"--Back cover.
- "September 2005".
- Bibliography: p. 139-141.
- Also available in an electronic version on the Internet. Address as at 17 Dec. 2009: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10171.
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- BEACH : bettering the evaluation and care of health
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