Opioid prescribing in Australian general practiceChristopher M Harrison
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Med J Aust 196:380-1. 2012
..Opioid use is increasing, and not just for chronic conditions or cancer...
- General practice - workforce gaps now and in 2020
Christopher Harrison
Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 40:12-5. 2011
..The general practice workforce required for Australia in the future will depend on many factors, including geographic areas and patient utilisation of general practice services...
- Antidepressant use
Christopher Harrison
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 40:365. 2011
..This article tests this statement using 12 years of nationally representative BEACH data, which includes data on antidepressants prescribed by GPs - not just those subsidised through the PBS...
- Skin malignancies in general practice
Salma Fahridin
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 36:984-5. 2007
..This provides a backdrop against which articles in this issue of Australian Family Physician can be further considered...
- AD(H)D
Christopher Harrison
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 37:393. 2008
..This suggests that general practitioners manage AD(H)D about 46,000 times for this age group nationally each year...
- Insomnia
Janice Charles
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 38:283. 2009
..Patients new to the practice and patients from non-English speaking backgrounds were under represented at insomnia encounters compared with all encounters (Figure 1)...
- The management of chronic problems
Julie O'Halloran
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 37:697. 2008
..For males, at least one chronic problem was managed at 40.7% of encounters. There was no significant difference in the proportion of encounters that involved management of chronic problems between males (40.7%) and females (38.7%)...
- Determinants of HIV testing
Shailendra Sawleshwarkar
Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Centre and University of Sydney, Marian Villa, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Sex Transm Infect 87:426-32. 2011
..To determine the characteristics of general practitioners (GPs) who test and patients who are tested for HIV in Australia...
- Sexual health
Christopher Harrison
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 38:379. 2009
..5 contacts per 100,000 encounters, which extrapolates to about 830,000 times annually across Australia. We examine the management rate of individual sexual health problems to look for disparities between the genders...
- Influenza
Janice Charles
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 37:793. 2008
..We examined encounters recorded between April 2003 and June 2008 to trace the relationship between uptake of influenza vaccine in BEACH and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing data on laboratory confirmed influenza...
- Management of haemachromatosis in general practice
Janice Charles
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 36:792-3. 2007
..Between April 2002 and March 2007, there were 439 consultations where haemachromatosis was managed, occurring at about one in 1000 encounters. This suggests that GPs manage haemachromatosis on almost 100 000 occasions nationally each year...
- Irritable bowel syndrome in Australian general practice
Janice Charles
AIHW Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 35:840-1. 2006
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- Malignant neoplasms--management in Australian general practice
Janice Charles
AIHW Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 35:760-1. 2006
..This synopsis provides a backdrop against which the articles in this issue of Australian Family Physician can be further considered...
- Contraception
Christopher Harrison
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 40:93. 2011
..8 per 100 encounters, second only to acute upper respiratory infections (10.1 per 100 encounters) as the most common problem managed for this age group...
- Intellectual disability
Janice Charles
Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 40:187. 2011
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- Autism spectrum disorders
Janice Charles
Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 40:665. 2011
..In this article we use BEACH data to examine changes in the management rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) from 2001 to 2011 in children aged <18 years. We also look at encounters where autism was managed during 2006-2011...
- Sex of the GP--20 years on
Christopher M Harrison
Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW christopher harrisonATsydney edu au
Med J Aust 195:192-6. 2011
..The proportion of female GPs increased from 19.6% in 1990-1991 to 37.1% in 2009-2010. This study investigates whether differences remain two decades later...
