Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Summary
- Sections
- Introduction
- Background
- Aims
- Methods
- BEACH methods
- Statistical methods
- The final data sets
- Changes over time in GP pathology ordering rates
- Changes in total pathology ordering rates over time
- Changes in pathology ordering rates over time excluding Pap smears
- Changes over time in the characteristics of GPs
- Changes in the characteristics of BEACH participants over time
- Changes in the characteristics of GPs in the national sample frame over time
- GP characteristics and pathology ordering rates
- Pathology test rates over all encounters and all problems
- Pathology test ordering rates after the decision to order pathology
- Summary of findings
- Do any changes in GP age and sex over time explain the increase in pathology test orders over the same period?
- The purpose for which pathology tests are ordered
- Distribution and rates of pathology tests by class
- The proportion of problems tested in each class
- Discussion
- Pathology ordering and problems managed
- Pathology test ordering rates for selected problems over time
- Problems most likely to generate 4 or 5 test orders, over time
- The relationship between pathology ordering and other management
- The relationship between pathology ordering and prescribing
- The relationship between imaging and pathology ordering
- The relationship between therapeutic procedures and pathology orders over time
- The relationship between provision of clinical treatments and pathology ordering
- Conclusion
- The relationship between length of consultation and pathology ordering
- Pathology ordering and Medicare item number recorded
- Length of consultation (in minutes) and pathology ordering rates
- Analysis of variance in pathology ordering rates
- Univariate analysis
- Multiple regression modelling
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- End matter
- References
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Example of a recording form (1998-99)
- Appendix 2: GP characteristics questionnaire (1998-99)
- Appendix 3: Code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS used in this report