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Trends In Primary Care Presentations At Emergency Departments In New South Wales (1999-2006), Peter M. Siminski, Andrew J. Bezzina, L. P. Lago, Kathy Eagar
Trends In Primary Care Presentations At Emergency Departments In New South Wales (1999-2006), Peter M. Siminski, Andrew J. Bezzina, L. P. Lago, Kathy Eagar
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines trends in potential ‘primary care’ presentations at EDs, comparing these with other ED presentations and to primary care attendances in the community.
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The study draws on EDIS data (Emergency Department Information System), which at December 2005 covered 76 per cent of attendances in New South Wales, and MBS data from Medicare Australia. Annual counts of potential ‘primary care’ presentations to EDs are compared with those of other ED presentations and to primary care presentations in the community. Changes in the percentage of ED presentations that are potentially for primary care are examined, as are changes in …
Order Effects In Batteries Of Questions, Peter M. Siminski
Order Effects In Batteries Of Questions, Peter M. Siminski
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Batteries of questions with identical response items are commonly used in survey research. This paper suggests that question order has the potential to cause systematic positive or negative bias on responses to all questions in a battery. Whilst question order effects have been studied for many decades, almost no attention has been given to this topic. The primary aim is to draw attention to this effect, to demonstrate its possible magnitude, and to discuss a range of mechanisms through which it might occur. These include satisficing, anchoring and cooperativeness. The effect seems apparent in the results of a recent survey. …
‘Primary Care' Presentations At Emergency Departments - Rates And Reasons By Age And Sex, Peter M. Siminski, Andrew J. Bezzina, L. P. Lago, Kathy Eagar
‘Primary Care' Presentations At Emergency Departments - Rates And Reasons By Age And Sex, Peter M. Siminski, Andrew J. Bezzina, L. P. Lago, Kathy Eagar
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
'Primary care' presentations at Emergency Departments (EDs) have been the subject of much attention in recent years. This paper is a demographic analysis of such presentations in New South Wales EDs and of self-reported reasons for presentation.