Aust Fam Physician
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Respiratory infections are the most common group of diseases experienced in the community and treated by doctors. Tonsillitis and pharyngitis, sometimes referred to together as acute sore throat, are among the most common of the individual respiratory infections.
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This study has demonstrated that activity sampling is a practical and sensitive method of analysing the general practitioner's task. The data so gathered can be used in planning and devising innovations in practice management, in planning and evaluating the use of allied health professionals for non- diagnostic tasks, for assisting in the definition of objectives for medical education more clearly, and finally, when the appropriate indices have been developed, for evaluating the quality of care provided.
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, in association with Intercontinental Medical Statistics conducted a General Practice Morbidity and Prescribing Survey from 1.4.69 to 31.12.74. This gave a baseline study of morbidity as it occurs in Australia plus a breakdown by State, sex, age and season, to give a clearer idea of geographical, personal and epidemiological factors influencing health and sickness.
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The survey reveals important data about onset of asthma and total attendances for asthma by Australian general practitioners. A comparison is made between data on asthma from the National Morbidity Survey 1962-63, and the Australian General Practitioner's Morbidity and Prescribing Survey 1969 to 1974. A slight male preponderance is demonstrated, most marked in infancy, but also in old age. ⋯ The onset of asthma occurs more often in autumn and spring than in summer and winter. The occurrence of asthma appears to becoming less relative to other disease. Although there was once relatively more asthma in the metropolitan areas compared with non-metropolitan, there is now less.