Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (93K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgments
    • Contents
    • Executive summary
  • Sections
    1. Overview (361K PDF)
      • Background
      • The BEACH program
      • BEACH data and other national data sources
      • Future options for national representative data collection from general practice
    2. Annual results BEACH 2005-06
      • The sample
      • The general practitioners
      • The encounters
      • The patients
      • Problems managed
      • Overview of management
      • Medications
      • Other treatments
      • Referrals and admissions
      • Investigations
      • Practice nurse activity
      • Patient risk factors
    3. Summary of changes from 1999-00 to 2005-06 (231K PDF)
      • Characteristics of the GPs
      • Encounter type
      • Characteristics of the patients at encounters
      • Patient reasons for encounter
      • Problems managed
      • Overview of management
      • Medications
      • Other treatments
      • Referrals
      • Test ordering
      • Patient risk behaviours
    4. Discussion
      • The GPs
      • Practice nurses
      • The encounters
      • The patients
      • Problems managed at encounter
      • Medications
      • Clinical treatments
      • Tests and investigations
      • Referrals
      • Conclusion
    5. Methods
      • Sampling methods
      • Recruitment methods
      • Data elements
      • Changes to data elements and reporting methods in 2005-06
      • Supplementary Analysis of Nominated Data (SAND)
      • The BEACH relational database
      • Statistical methods
      • Classification of data
      • Patient risk factor methods
      • Quality assurance
      • Methodological issues
      • Other BEACH applications
  • End matter (87K PDF)
    • Reference list
    • Glossary
    • Abbreviations
    • Appendices (499K PDF) 1 
      1.  Example of a 2005-06 recording form
      2. GP characteristics questionnaire 2005-06
      3. Dissemination of results from the BEACH program
      4. Summary of annual results 2001-02 to 2005-06
      5. Code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
      6. Chronic code groups from ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 PLUS
    • Appendices 5-6 (173K PDF)1
    • List of tables
    • List of figures