Cardiovascular problems and risk behaviours among patients at general practice encounters in Australia 1998-00

Cardiovascular problems and risk behaviours among patients at general practice encounters in Australia 1998-00

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General practice series no. 9

This is a secondary analysis of data from the first two years of the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program, April 1998-March 2002. Based on 203,100 encounters, it reports the characteristics of patients who attended encounters where cardiovascular problems were managed, and those of the GPs with whom these encounters occurred. Comparisons were made between the characteristics of these patients (cardiovascular patients) and their GPs and the characteristics of those at encounters where cardiovascular problems were not managed.

Authored by Henderson J, Pan Y, Britt H, Charles J, Miller GC & Knox S.

Published 24 October 2002; ISSN 1442 3022; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 208 0; AIHW cat. no. GEP 9; 147pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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  • Preliminary material (145K PDF)
    • Half title page and verso
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Summary
    • Acknowledgments
  •  Sections
    1. Background (112K PDF)
      1. Aims
      2. A review of the literature - risk factors, risk behaviours and cardiovascular problems
    2. Methods (96K PDF)
      1. The BEACH program
    3. The total data set (124K PDF)
      1. GP characteristics
      2. The patients
      3. The encounters
      4. The content of the encounters
      5. The problems
    4. GP's and cardiovascular encounter rates (140K PDF)
      1. Distribution of GP's by cardiovascular encounter rate
      2. Cardiovascular encounter rates by GP characteristics
      3. Characteristics of GP's with high, medium and low cardiovascular encounter rates
      4. GP characteristics by cardiovascular encounter rate: analysis of variance
      5. Conclusion
    5. Comparison of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular encounters and patients (254K PDF)
      1. Type of encounter
      2. The content of the encounters
      3. Characteristics of the patients
    6. Cardiovascular problems managed (115K PDF)
      1. Relative rate of cardiovascular problems and encounters
      2. Nature of cardiovascular morbidity
      3. Overview of management of cardiovascular problems
    7. Changes since 1991 (390K PDF)
      1. Changes in characteristics of participating GP's and the patients
      2. Comparison of cardiovascular encounter rates
      3. Most common cardiovascular problems managed
      4. Comparison of management of cardiovascular problems
      5. Comparison of medications prescribed for cardiovascular problems
      6. Conclusion
    8. Prevalence of cardiovascular problems among patients at encounters in general practice (165K PDF)
      1. Is the subsample representative?
      2. Current morbidity among patients encountered in general practice
      3. The prevalence of cardiovascular problems among patients encountered in general practice
      4. A grouped analysis of prevalence of cardiovascular problems in patients encountered in general practice
      5. Interrelationships of cardiovascular problems
      6. Prevalence of lipid disorder and diabetes in patients with cardiovascular disease
      7. Discussion
    9. Health risk behaviours in patients at cardiovascular encounters (128K PDF)
      1. Smoking
      2. Alcohol consumption
      3. Body mass index
      4. Alcohol consumption and body mass index
      5. Overview of these results
    10. Conclusion (42K PDF)
  • End matter (554K PDF)
    • Reference List
    • Glossary
    • Abbreviations
    • Appendixes
      1. Example of a recording form from 1998-99 BEACH data year
      2. Example of a recording form from 1999-00 BEACH data year
      3. GP characteristics questionnaire, 1998-99 BEACH data year
      4. GP characteristics questionnaire, 1999-00 BEACH data year
      5. The recording form used in the Australian Morbidity and Treatment Survey 1990-91
      6. Problem code groups from ICPC-2 used in this report

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