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General practice activity in Australia 2008-09
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Topic: Primary health care
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2009) General practice activity in Australia 2008-09, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 December 2023.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2009). General practice activity in Australia 2008-09. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. General practice activity in Australia 2008-09. AIHW, 2009.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. General practice activity in Australia 2008-09. Canberra: AIHW; 2009.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2009, General practice activity in Australia 2008-09, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report presents results from the eleventh year of the BEACH program, a national study of general practice activity. From April 2008 to March 2009, 1,011 general practitioners recorded data about 101,100 GP-patient encounters involving the management of 149,462 problems. For an `average' 100 encounters, GPs recorded 106 medications, 34 clinical treatments, 17 procedures, 9 referrals to specialists and 4 to allied health services, and ordered 46 pathology and 10 imaging tests.
- ISSN: 1442-3022
- ISBN: 978 1 74024 972 0
- Cat. no: GEP 25
- Pages: 198