General practice activity in Australia 2014–15
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Britt, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Miller, Graeme C | |
| dc.contributor.author | Henderson, Joan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bayram, Clare | |
| dc.contributor.author | Harrison, Christopher | |
| dc.contributor.author | Valenti, Lisa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wong, Carmen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gordon, Julie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pollack, Allan J | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pan, Ying | |
| dc.contributor.author | Charles, Janice | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-09 | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-09 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-11-04 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Britt H, Miller GC, Henderson J, Bayram C, Harrison C, Valenti L, Wong C, Gordon J, Pollack AJ, Pan Y, Charles J. General practice activity in Australia 2014–15. General practice series no. 38. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2015. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13765 | |
| dc.description | This book provides a summary of results from the 17th year of the University of Sydney’s BEACH program, a continuous national study of general practice activity in Australia. From April 2014 to March 2015, 995 general practitioners (GPs) recorded details of 99,500 GP–patient encounters, at which patients presented 151,636 reasons for encounter and 153,133 problems were managed. For an ‘average’ 100 problems managed, GPs recorded 66 medications (including 55 prescribed, 5 supplied to the patient and 6 advised for over-the-counter purchase), 11 procedures, 22 clinical treatments (advice and counselling), 6 referrals to specialists and 3 to allied health services, 30 orders for pathology tests and 7 for imaging tests. A subsample study of measured risk factors in more than 31,000 patients suggests that in the adult (18 years and over) population who attended general practice at least once in 2014–15 the prevalence of obesity was 27%, overweight was 34%, daily smoking was 17%, and at-risk alcohol consumption was 26%. One in four people in the attending population had at least two of these risk factors. This book also contains a feature chapter examining changes in the care of older people (aged 65 years or more) in general practice over the 15 years 2000–01 to 2014–15. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This is the 17th annual report and the 38th book in the General Practice Series from the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program, a continuous national study of general practice activity in Australia. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Australian Government Department of Health, AstraZeneca Pty Ltd (Australia), Novartis Pharmaceuticals Australia Pty Ltd, bioCSL (Australia) Pty Ltd, AbbVie Pty Ltd, Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | en |
| dc.publisher | Sydney University Press | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GENERAL PRACTICE SERIES 38 | en |
| dc.rights | Other | en |
| dc.subject | Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health | en |
| dc.subject | BEACH | en |
| dc.subject | general practice | en |
| dc.subject | Australia | en |
| dc.subject | GP | en |
| dc.subject | Family Medicine Research Centre | en |
| dc.subject | medical survey | en |
| dc.subject | delivery of health care statistics and numerical data | en |
| dc.subject | family practice statistics and numerical data | en |
| dc.subject | health services utilisation | en |
| dc.subject | healthcare surveys | en |
| dc.subject | healthcare methods | en |
| dc.title | General practice activity in Australia 2014–15 | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney | en |
| dc.rights.other | Copyright Individual authors; Sydney University Press 2015 | en |
| usyd.faculty | Sydney University Press | en |
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