Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Executive summary
- Sections
- Introduction
- Aims
- Geographical classification
- RRMA
- ARIA and ASGC Remoteness Structure
- MBS claims and full-time workload equivalents
- Methods
- Sampling frame
- Recruitment methods
- Data elements
- Applying RRMA and ASGC Remoteness Structure to the BEACH sample
- The BEACH relational database
- Statistical methods
- Classification of data
- Classification of pharmaceuticals
- Quality assurance
- Validity and reliability
- The sample
- GP sample size
- The BEACH data set
- RRMA versus ASGC Remoteness concordance
- BEACH versus MBS claims
- The participating GPs
- Characteristics of the GPs
- GP computer use in the practice
- The encounters
- Types of encounter
- Distribution of Medicare-claimable encounters
- Summary of morbidity and management
- The patients
- Patient characteristics
- Number of RFEs at encounter
- Reasons for encounter by ICPC-2 component
- Reasons for encounter by ICPC-2 chapter and common individual RFEs
- Patient characteristics
- Problems managed
- Number of problems managed at the encounter
- Nature of morbidity
- Types of problems managed
- Problems managed by ICPC-2 chapter
- Most frequently managed problems
- Most frequently managed new problems
- National Health Priority Areas
- Treatments
- Medications
- Types of medications prescribed or supplied
- Other treatments
- Clinical treatments
- Procedures
- Medications
- Referrals
- Referral rates
- Tests and investigations
- Rates of tests and investigations
- Distribution of pathology orders across MBS pathology groups
- Distribution of imaging tests across MBS groups
- Summary of results
- RRMA
- ASGC Remoteness
- Discussion
- RRMA versus ASGC
- GP visit rates per head of population
- National Health Priority Areas
- Methodological issues
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- End matter
- Reference list
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Example of a 2003-04 recording form1
- Appendix 2: GP characteristics questionnaire for 2003-04
- Appendix 3: Code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
- Appendix 4: Chronic code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS