Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Sections
- Introduction
- Background
- Objectives
- Methods
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- The BEACH study
- Statistical method
- The GPs
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- Recruitment and participation
- The participating GPs
- The encounters
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- Representativeness of the sub sample
- Health Insurance Commission data
- BEACH-distribution of services
- Summary of morbidity and management
- Length of consultation
- The patients
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- Characteristics of the patients at encounter
- Patient reasons for encounter
- Most frequent individual reasons for encounter
- Problems
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- Problems managed by ICPC-2 chapter
- Most frequent individual problems managed
- Injuries
- Medications
- Non-pharmaculogical treatments
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- Clinical treatments by age group
- Procedural treatments
- Referrals, tests and investigations
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- Referrals
- Pathulogy test orders
- Imaging orders
- Risk factors
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- Alcohul
- Smoking
- Body mass index
- Changes in morbidity and management over time
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- 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
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- 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
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- Comparison of BEACH dataset with national data
- Distribution of EPC items in BEACH across GPs
- 75+ health assessments
- Care plans
- Case conferences
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- End Matter
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- References
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
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- 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