Bettering the evaluation and care of health: a study of general practice activity

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Describes the methods adopted in the national BEACH program and provides an overview of the results of the first six months data collection.

Preliminary material (22K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Foreword
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
Chapters
- Background (19K PDF)
  - Australian general practice data
  - BEACH: Bettering the Evaluation And Care of Health
- Method (34K PDF)
  - Summary
  - Data elements
  - The GP sample
  - Data collection
  - Data entry and classification
  - Statistical methods
  - Limitations of BEACH
  - Data output
  - Interim sampling results
- Interim summary of results (34K PDF)
  - The participating general practitioners
  - Encounters
- Discussion (15K PDF)
  - Access to the BEACH data
  - Conclusion
End matter
- Glossary and abbreviations (20K PDF)
- References (7K PDF)
- Appendixes
  - Appendix 1 (107K PDF)
  - Appendix 2 (62K PDF)
  - Appendix 3 (271K PDF)
  - Appendix 4 (392K PDF)

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