Table of contents
- Preliminary material (89KB PDF)
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Body sections
- Overview (54KB PDF)
- Background
- The BEACH program
- Issues when using BEACH data with other national data
- Access to BEACH data
- Methods (87KB PDF)
- Sampling methods
- Recruitment methods
- Data elements
- Supplementary Analysis of Nominated Data
- The BEACH relational database
- Statistical methods
- Classification of data
- Quality assurance
- Validity and reliability
- Other BEACH applications
- The sample (60KB PDF)
- Response rate
- Representativeness of the GP sample
- Weighting the data
- Representativeness of the final encounter sample
- The weighted data set
- The participating GPs (55KB PDF)
- Characteristics of the GP participants
- Computer use at GP practices
- The encounters (63KB PDF)
- Content of the encounters
- Encounter type
- Consultation length
- The patients (71KB PDF)
- Age-sex distribution of patients at encounter
- Other patient characteristics
- Patient reasons for encounter
- Problems managed (89KB PDF)
- Number of problems managed at encounter
- Problems managed by ICPC-2 chapter
- Problems managed by ICPC-2 component
- Most frequently managed problems
- Most common new problems
- Most frequently managed chronic problems
- Work-related problems managed
- Overview of management (51KB PDF)
- Medications (106KB PDF)
- Source of medications
- Prescribed medications
- Medications supplied by GPs
- Medications advised for over-the-counter purchase
- Other treatments (63KB PDF)
- Number of other treatments
- Clinical treatments
- Procedural treatments
- Referrals and admissions (70KB PDF)
- Number of referrals and admissions
- Most frequent referrals
- Problems most often referred
- Investigations (69KB PDF)
- Number of investigations
- Pathology ordering
- Imaging ordering
- Other investigations
- Practice nurse activity (66KB PDF)
- Practice nurse Medicare claims versus practice nurse activity
- Discussion
- Patient risk factors (89KB PDF)
- Body mass index
- Smoking (patients aged 18 years and over)
- Alcohol consumption (patients aged 18 years and over)
- Risk factor profile of adult patients
- SAND abstracts and research tools (1.07MB PDF)
- Overview (54KB PDF)
- End matter
- References (34KB PDF)
- Glossary (38KB PDF)
- Appendices (173KB PDF)1
- Example of a 2007-08 recording form
- GP characteristics questionnaire, 2007-08
- Dissemination of results from the BEACH program
- Code groups from ICPC-2 andICPC-2 PLUS
- Chronic code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
- List of tables (28K PDF)
- List of figures (21K PDF)