All | Age group less than 55 years | |||||
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Aboriginal | Non-Aboriginal | p-value | Aboriginal | Non-Aboriginal | p-value | |
1. Total MBS items, n (%) | 47,047 (3.5) | 1,301,191 (96.5) | 27,805 (59.1) | 228,849 (17.6) | ||
▪ Professional consults of total items, n (%) | 30,926 (65.7) | 773,278 (59.4) | < 0.001 | 18,482 (66.5) | 133,607 (58.4) | < 0.001 |
▪ Non-professional consults of total items, n(%) | 16,121 (34.3) | 527,913 (40.6) | 9323 (33.5) | 95,242 (41.6) | ||
2. Types of consults or services of total items, n (%) | ||||||
▪ Total GP records (of total MBS items) | 28,392 (60.4) | 569,763 (43.8) | < 0.001 | 17,222 (61.9) | 100,581 (44.0) | < 0.001 |
▪ Total specialist records (of total MBS items) | 2443 (5.2) | 204,002 (15.7) | 1207 (4.3) | 33,142 (14.5) | ||
▪ Allied health services (of total MBS records) | 134 (0.3) | 4074 (0.3) | 68 (0.2) | 740 (0.3) | ||
▪ Other MBS services -pathology | 14,127 (30.0) | 439,202 (33.7) | 8174 (29.4) | 78,754 (34.4) | ||
▪ Other services | 1951 (4.1) | 84,150 (6.5) | 1134 (4.2) | 15,632 (6.8) | ||
Mean # MBS items per day per patient (note pts. can have two consults/day) | 1.8 ± 1.2 | 2.0 ± 1.6 | < 0.001 | 1.8 ± 1.2 | 1.9 ± 1.6 | < 0.001 |
3. Types of professional consults, n(%) | 30,926 (65.7) | 773,278 (59.4) | < 0.001 | 18,482 (66.5) | 133,607 (58.4) | < 0.001 |
▪ Number of GP consults | 28,392 (91.8) | 569,763 (73.7) | < 0.001 | 17,222 (93.2) | 100,581 (75.3) | < 0.001 |
▪ Number of specialist consults | 2443 (7.9) | 204,002 (26.4) | < 0.001 | 1207 (6.5) | 33,142 (24.8) | < 0.001 |
▪ Number allied health consults | 134 (0.4) | 4074 (0.5) | 0.025 | 68 (0.4) | 740 (0.5) | 0.001 |
Sub-total of professional consults | 30,926 | 773,278 | < 0.001 | 18,482 | 133,607 | < 0.001 |
GP consult category, n (%) | ||||||
▪ GP consult (short-prolonged) category unspecified | 8319 (29.3) | 160,511 (28.2) | < 0.001 | 5063 (29.4) | 19,926 (19.8) | < 0.001 |
▪ Short | 492 (1.7) | 6185 (1.1) | 280 (1.6) | 1048 (1.0) | ||
▪ Standard | 15,039 (53.0) | 336,162 (59.0) | 9104 (52.9) | 65,965 (65.6) | ||
▪ Long | 4087 (14.4) | 61,871 (10.9) | 2505 (14.6) | 12,498 (12.4) | ||
▪ Prolonged | 455 (1.6) | 5034 (0.9) | 270 (1.6) | 1144 (1.1) | ||
4. Patient counts | ||||||
Patients with no MBS records), n (%) | 102 (7.4) | 999 (3.7) | 0.035 | 80 (5.8) | 410 (1.5) | 0.008 |
Number of patients with MBS records, n (%) | 1269 (92.5) | 25,961 (95.3) | 832 (60.6) | 6706 (24.6) | ||
5. GP consults, person-based | ||||||
Patients with no GP consults, n (%) | 75 (5.9) | 590 (2.3) | < 0.001 | 52 (6.3) | 146 (2.2) | < 0.001 |
Patients with ≥1 GP consults, n (%) | 1194 (94.1) | 25,371 (97.7) | 780 (93.7) | 6560 (97.8) | ||
Mean GP visits-person-based, ±SD | 19.1 ± 32.6 | 13.9 ± 15.1 | < 0.001 | 17.2 ± 25.3 | 13.6 ± 14.4 | < 0.001 |
Mean GP costs/person, dollars ±SD | 696.15 ± 780.9 | 653.72 ± 584.9 | 0.007 | 668 ± 908.7 | 507.9 ± 543.7 | < 0.001 |
Specialist consults, person-based | ||||||
Patients with no specialist consults, n (%) | 825 (65.0) | 7376 (28.4) | < 0.001 | 587 (70.6) | 2799 (41.7) | < 0.001 |
Patients with specialist consults, n (%) | 444 (35.0) | 18,585 (71.6) | 245 (29.4) | 3907 (58.3) | ||
Mean specialists visits, person-based | 1.7 ± 4.1 | 7.6 ± 14.4 | < 0.001 | 0.7 ± 1.6 | 2.6 ± 5.9 | < 0.001 |
Mean specialist costs/person, dollars±SD | 662.5 ± 808.7 | 1365.26 ± 1658.3 | < 0.001 | 642.0 ± 817.2 | 1060.1 ± 1480.4 | 0.009 |