The consultation proportions were similar between males and females.
Student t test, taking the equal variance and unequal sample size into account, was used to analyse differences between groups regarding age, while χ² analysis was used to compare the distributions of education, sex, level of consultation and proportion of patients with neck injury who consulted for different diseases and proportion with work disability.
Among patients with ID consultations, the proportion of inappropriate prescriptions was 16.5%, indicating a significantly lower rate than among patients without ID consultation.
The estimated mean numbers of HIV-related consultations, average proportions of patients and interventions were adjusted for clustering within the practice and urbanisation.
When the analysis was repeated for practices where data on both curative and preventive services were available (5 practices and 2146 consultations), substantial proportions of patients were found to seek care for immunizations (25%), family planning (12%), and ante-natal care (11%).
Our study shows that patients are likely to express their worries during primary care psychosocial consultations and that the proportion of consultations with at least one explicit concern was higher during more recent consultations.
Secondary outcome measures included patient satisfaction with consultations, disease course, anthropometric measures, proportion of consultations attended, duration of consultations, and costs to the UK National Health Service (NHS).
The other variables that were significantly associated with lower productivity were: the longer mean duration of a regular consultation and the proportion of long consultations, a higher average income quintile of the patient population, and a higher percentage of females in the physician's patient population.
Aside from this apparent stable informal consultation fee, the proportion of patients reporting giving money to the health care provider shows slight variations across the years, with higher proportions in 2008 (62%) and 2011 (49%).
Patients under usual care were also eligible for PEP and allied health professionals consultation, but the proportions having these interventions were quite small (2.6% and 1.1%, respectively).> -wrap-foot> aChi square test.
Use of Medicare-funded services: number of GP consultations (brief, standard, long and prolonged), proportion of consultations that are long or prolonged, MBS benefits and out-of-pocket costs and PBS benefits and out-of-pocket costs.
