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Health service utilisation in the public and private sector by patients with diabetes rnellitus aged less than 40 years
Author(s) -
Griffiths R.,
Moses R.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1992.tb02125.x
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , public sector , private sector , public health , gerontology , service (business) , environmental health , family medicine , nursing , economic growth , endocrinology , marketing , business , economy , economics
This paper uses the Illawarra 0–39 years diabetes register to provide a data base of health suvice utilisation in tbc public and private sectors. Eligible patients from the register were divided into a ‘stable group’ comprising children and adults who had had diabetes for more than one year prior to review and a ‘newly diagnosed’ group who were followed for one year after diagnosis. The records of inpatient and selected autpatbt services at public hospitals as well as visits to general practitioners, paediatricians and physicians were considered. Less than balf of all ‘newly diagnosed’ patients were admitted to hospital faf stabilisation and none required readmission in the 12 month review period. Less than one fifth of all ‘stable’ patients were admitted to hospital during the year. General practitioners were the most frequently used health used health resource being attended by 31/38(82%) ‘stable children’, 122/133 (92%) ‘stable adults’ and 25/25 (100%) ‘newly diagnosed patients’. Public hospital Accident and Emergency Services were the least used health facility being frequented by only 9/38 (24%), 23/133 (17%) and 7/25 (28%) rrspecrivtly. (AWR NZ J Med 1992; 22:274–277.)