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Younger GPs were more likely to be female, hold FRACGP, be an Australian graduate and work in a group practice. Older GPs were more likely to manage patients who: were male, were aged 45+ years, held a Commonwealth healthcare card (HCC) or Veterans’ Affairs card; were from a non-English speaking...

We analysed 2123 encounters with infants aged less than 4 months – recorded between January 2010 and December 2011 – for RFE, problems managed and type of management provided. About 1% of BEACH encounters are with patients in this age group.Male infants accounted for 54% of these encounters, a...

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From April 2009 to March 2011 in BEACH, benign prostatic hyperplasia/hypertrophy (BPH) was managed at a rate of six per 1000 general practice encounters with male patients aged 18 years and over, suggesting it was managed by general practitioners about 228 000 times per year nationally.Two-thirds...

General practitioner consultations with patients of non-English speaking background (NESB) account for one in 10 encounters recorded in the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program (NESB is defined as patients who reported that their primary language spoken at home is not...

The proportion of the Australian population aged 65 years or more increased from 12.5% in 20011 to 13.3% in 2009.2 This aging of the population will increasingly pose challenges to the public health system. In BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health), between April 2001 and March 2002,...

From April 2005 to March 2010 in BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health), chronic heart failure (CHF) was managed at a rate of 0.7 per 100 encounters, suggesting it was managed by general practitioners about 717 000 times per year nationally.