Population based estimates of MBS, PBS and hospital utilisation rates using prevalent chronic disease denominators

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/353649

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This project will use hospital morbidity and mortality data from the WA Data Linkage System, linked to the Medicare Benefits Scheme and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme databases to produce measures of disease occurrence and health service utilisation within the Western Australian population according to indices of social and geographical disadvantage. The first objective will involve establishing teams of clinicians and researchers who will work together to develop and validate lists of MBS and PBS item numbers that are indicative of specified chronic diseases. This information will then be used to identify patients with these conditions from the MBS and PBS databases during the period 1990-2003 and this method of case ascertainment will be compared with the use of the Hospital morbidity data system alone. Once groups of patients have been identified, their utilisation rates of MBS, PBS and hospital services will be calculated. The effect of social and geographical indices on the occurrence of disease and the utilisation of services will also be studied. Trends over time in health status and health service utilisation are vital to the evidence-based planning and evaluation of health services and to the provision of an equitable and accessible health service which is based on the needs of the community. The work will represent the first time that the utilisation of Australian MBS and PBS itemised services is measured in diagnostically defined groups of patients with chronic diseases.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 01-01-2007

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $246,000.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Public Health and Health Services

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

chronic disease | geographic variations | health inequalities | health service utilisation | locational and social disadvantage | population-based health services research | population-based record linkage | service utilisation | socioeconomic variations in health status

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