General practice activity in Australia 1998-99

General practice activity in Australia 1998-99

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General practice series no. 2

Provides the results of the first year of the BEACH program conducted between April 1998 and March 1999. It relies on a sample of 98,400 GP-patient encounter records from a random sample of 984 GPs to describe aspects of general practice in Australia: the characteristics of the GPs; the types of services provided; the characteristics of the patients who attend general practitioners; the reasons for their attendance; the problems managed at these consultations; and the management techniques adopted by the GPs. A comparison of results with those of an earlier national study conducted in 1990-91 provides some measure of changes that have occurred over the last eight years.

Authored by Britt H, Sayer GP, Miller GC, Charles J, Scahill S, Horn F, Bhasale A & McGeechan K.

Published 25 October 1999; ISSN 1442 3022; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 016 1; AIHW cat. no. GEP 2; 213pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (116K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
    • Summary (separate 60K PDF)
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapters
    1. Introduction (59K PDF)
      1. Aims
    2. Methods (124K PDF)
      1. Development of the BEACH methods
      2. BEACH methods
    3. The general practitioners (80K PDF)
      1. Results of recruitment
      2. The participating GPs
      3. Comparison between participating and non-participating GPs
    4. Representativeness (68K PDF)
      1. Comparison of BEACH GPs with the national GP population
      2. Comparison of BEACH consultations with all GP consultations in Australia
      3. Sample weights
      4. The weighted dataset
    5. The encounters (62K PDF)
      1. Overview of the dataset
      2. Encounter type
    6. The patients (274K PDF)
      1. Patient characteristics
      2. Patient reasons for encounter
    7. Problems managed (239K PDF)
      1. All problems
      2. New problems
      3. The inter-relationship of a problem managed with other variables.
        Example: Depression
    8. Management (69K PDF)
      1. Overview of management
      2. Patterns of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment
    9. Medications (424K PDF)
      1. Source of medications
      2. The inter-relationship of a medication with other variables.
        Example: Cephalosporins
      3. Prescribed drugs
      4. Advised drugs for over the counter purchase
      5. General practitioner supplied drugs
    10. Non-pharmacological management (232K PDF)
      1. Clinical treatments
      2. Procedural treatments
    11. Referrals and admissions (153K PDF)
      1. Number of referrals and admissions
      2. Age-sex specific rates of referrals
      3. Most frequent referrals
      4. Problems that were referred
      5. The inter-relationship of referrals with other variables
    12. Investigations (177K PDF)
      1. Pathology ordering
      2. Imaging ordering
    13. Changes since 1991 (91K PDF)
      1. Characteristics of participating GPs
      2. Distribution of services
      3. Age and sex of patient
      4. Comparison of problems managed
      5. Comparison of medications prescribed
      6. Conclusion
    14. Selected topics (458K PDF)
      1. Encounters with Indigenous people
      2. Indirect encounters
      3. The gender of the GP
      4. State/Territory data based on patient residence
    15. Conclusion (35K PDF)
      1. Access to the BEACH data
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix I: Example of a recording form (169K PDF)
      • Appendix II: GP characteristics questionnaire
      • Appendix III: Reasons for encounter and problems managed-code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
      • Appendix IV: Non-pharmacological treatment code groups from ICPC-2 PLUS
      • Appendix V: Referrals-code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS (87K PDF)
      • Appendix VI: Pathology test orders-code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
      • Appendix VII: Imaging test orders-code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
    • Glossary (81K PDF)
    • Abbreviations
    • Bibliography