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4839.0.55.001 - Health Services: Patient Experiences in Australia, 2009
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Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 20/10/2011
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Most Australians use Health Services but Access, Cost an Issue for some (Media Release)
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Introduction
Introduction
Use of health services
Use of health services - An overview
General practitioner (GP)
Coordination of care
Hospital admissions and emergency visits
Imaging and pathology tests
Seeking health-related advice from pharmacists
Barriers to health services
Barriers to health care
Barriers to seeing a GP
Barriers to after hours GP care
Cost barriers to prescribed medications
Barriers to specialists
Cost barriers to pathology and imaging tests
Barriers to access - general health services
General practitioners and medical specialists
General practitioners and medical specialists
Frequency of visits to GP
Attended GP for urgent medical care
Time between making appointment and seeing a GP for urgent medical care
After hours visits to a GP
Prescriptions for medication
Medical specialists
Hospital and Emergency
Hospital and Emergency
Frequency of hospital admissions
Public and private patients
Given the choice to be treated as a public or private patient
Hospital emergency department visits
Thought care could have been provided by GP
Main reason patients went to emergency department instead of a GP
Communication with health providers
Communication with health providers
Prescriptions for medication
Pathology tests
Imaging tests
Coordination of care
Pharmaceutical advice
Harm and harmful side-effects
Harm and harmful side-effects
Experienced harm or harmful side-effect
Informed of risk
Received explanation of most recent harm or harmful side-effect
Visited a health professional about harm or harmful side-effect
Satisfaction with the way situation was handled for most recent harm or harmful side-effect
Children's use of health services
Children's visits to hospital emergency departments
Children's visits to general practitioners after hours
Children's visits to general practitioners for urgent medical care
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