To comprehensively examine pathology test utilisation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH D) testing in each state of Australia to determine the cost impact and value and to add evidence to enable the development of vitamin D testing guidelines.
An additional benefit of this project is that once the linkage keys for the study population are established, there is potential to use this infrastructure (pending appropriate ethics approval) to examine the utilisation and safety of other medications during pregnancy, simply by obtaining linked PBS records relating to additional medications.
We will examine healthcare utilisation by severity of burn, remoteness of place of residence and sociodemographic factors such as family structure, and age of child.
Purpose / Objective The main objective of this section of the National Disability Survey, 1998, was to examine the utilisation of mainstream primary schools by parents for the education of their disabled children.
Given that the MCH service is critical for promoting the health and wellbeing of young children and their families, particularly mothers, it is important to examine its utilisation by families from refugee backgrounds.
The focus of our study was to examine the utilisation of VPs in the early stages of a medical curriculum to support a traditional (instructor-led) basic life support with automated external defibrillator (BLS-AED) course.
Such an approach probably entails adopting a case study approach, and there is a long history of applying the case study approach to examine the utilisation of research [ 24].
In order to have the power to examine service utilisation and barriers to care in those with mental health problems, the study population was weighted towards the unwell; 70% were a random sample of those who scored above the threshold for 'GHQ caseness' (score of greater than 3); and 30% were a randomly selected subgroup of the non-GHQ cases (two-phase survey technique).
Whereas the physiological and metabolic responses to maximal running, cycling and knee extension exercise using the leg extension ergometer have been well documented, to our knowledge, careful investigations examining substrate utilisation across a single set of bilateral leg press exercise have not been performed.
In a bottom-up approach, costs are determined by examining individual utilisation.
