General practice activity in Australia 2008-09

This report presents results from the eleventh year of the BEACH program, a national study of general practice activity. From April 2008 to March 2009, 1,011 general practitioners recorded data about 101,100 GP-patient encounters involving the management of 149,462 problems. For an \u27average\u27 100 encounters, GPs recorded 106 medications, 34 clinical treatments, 17 procedures, 9 referrals to specialists and 4 to allied health services, and ordered 46 pathology and 10 imaging tests. Authors: Britt H, Bayram C, Charles J, Fahridin S, Harrison C, Henderson J, Miller GC, O\u27Halloran J, Pan Y & Valenti L