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July 2007 Volume 11 Number 3
Bytes from BEACH: Posttraumatic stress disorder among Australian veterans
Christopher Harrison, Janice Charles and Associate Professor Helena Britt AIHW Australian General Practice Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney.
Just over 3 percent of all general practice encounters recorded by BEACH (about 3000 annually) are with Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) cardholders (veterans). Most of these patients are veterans, and some are war widows and widowers.1 We examined encounters with veterans from April 2004 – March 2006 to determine the rate at which depression, anxiety, alcohol problems, drug abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were managed. We also compared DVA encounters with non-DVA patient encounters from the same period.
The majority of veterans (80.1%) were aged 75 years or more and 18.2 percent were aged 45–74 years. Male patients made up 55.3 percent of the total; normally in BEACH they account for 40–45 percent.
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