Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
    • Summary
    • Acknowledgements
  • Sections
    • Introduction 
      • Background
      • Objectives
    • Methods 
      • The BEACH study
      • Statistical method
    • The GPs 
      • Recruitment and participation
      • The participating GPs
    • The encounters 
      • Representativeness of the sub sample
      • Health Insurance Commission data
      • BEACH-distribution of services
      • Summary of morbidity and management
      • Length of consultation
    • The patients 
      • Characteristics of the patients at encounter
      • Patient reasons for encounter
      • Most frequent individual reasons for encounter
    • Problems 
      • Problems managed by ICPC-2 chapter
      • Most frequent individual problems managed
      • Injuries
    • Medications 
    • Non-pharmaculogical treatments
      • Clinical treatments by age group
      • Procedural treatments
    • Referrals, tests and investigations 
      • Referrals
      • Pathulogy test orders
      • Imaging orders
    • Risk factors 
      • Alcohul
      • Smoking
      • Body mass index
    • Changes in morbidity and management over time 
      • Changes over time in the morbidity and management of patients aged 65 years and over
      • Problems managed in patients aged 65+
      • Comparison of problems managed in the 65-74 year age group - AMTS and BEACH
      • Comparison of problems managed in the 75+ age group - AMTS and BEACH
    • Chronic conditions 
      • Chronic conditions managed at encounter
      • Prevalence and co-morbidities of the most common chronic conditions
      • Comparison between the prevalence and management rates of chronic conditions
    • Enhanced Primary Care 
      • Comparison of BEACH dataset with national data
      • Distribution of EPC items in BEACH across GPs
      • 75+ health assessments
      • Care plans
      • Case conferences
    • Discussion 
    • Conclusion 
  • End Matter
    • References 
    • Glossary
    • Abbreviations
      • Appendix 1: Example of a recording form from BEACH 2000-01 recording year 
      • Appendix 2: Example of a recording form from BEACH 2001-02 recording year
      • Appendix 3: GP characteristics questionnaire from BEACH 2000-01 recording year 
      • Appendix 4: GP characteristics questionnaire from BEACH 2001-02 recording year 
      • Appendix 5: Recording form used in the Australian Morbidity and Treatment Survey (AMTS) (1990-91) 
      • Appendix 6: Code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS 
      • Appendix 7: Chronic code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS