Primary Care Visits in the USA and Australia 2000-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are major concerns about the sustainability of the US primary care (PC) system.

Objective

We use similar data from the USA and Australia on adult visits to primary care physicians to examine how primary care service delivery and content in the countries have changed since the year 2001.

Design/setting/participants

Longitudinal analyses of nationally representative data collected in a similar manner on outpatient visits to PC in the USA (National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, NAMCS) and Australia (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health, BEACH), 2001-2016.

Main measures

For each visit, we ascertained the problems/diagnoses managed; the length of the visit in minutes; what medications were recorded; whether counseling, advice, or education

SUBMITTER: Landon BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971376 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature