From: Improving preventive health care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary care settings
 |  | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Overall | |||||||||||
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Primary Health Care Centres | 12 | 36 | 35 | 46 | 50 | 38 | 79 | 66 | 61 | 28 | 137 | ||||||||||||
 |  | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
Location | Urban | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7.58 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
Regional | 5 | 42 | 10 | 28 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7.58 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 13 | |
Remote | 7 | 58 | 22 | 61 | 29 | 83 | 33 | 72 | 44 | 88 | 35 | 92 | 70 | 89 | 56 | 84.85 | 55 | 90 | 20 | 71 | 108 | 79 | |
Governance | Community-controlled | 8 | 67 | 25 | 69 | 22 | 63 | 22 | 48 | 20 | 40 | 11 | 29 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 25 | 37 | 27 |
Government | 4 | 33 | 11 | 31 | 13 | 37 | 24 | 52 | 30 | 60 | 27 | 71 | 66 | 84 | 59 | 89 | 54 | 89 | 21 | 75 | 100 | 73 | |
Number of audited records | 358 | 1029 | 1015 | 1420 | 1554 | 1416 | 3557 | 2893 | 2875 | 991 | 17,108 | ||||||||||||
Age (mean & range) | 32 (15–55) | 32 (15–63) | 32 (15–61) | 34 (15–65) | 35 (15–65) | 35 (15–65) | 33 (15–65) | 33 (15–65) | 33 (15–65) | 31(15–65) | 33 (15–65) | ||||||||||||
Sex | Male | 176 | 49 | 504 | 49 | 503 | 50 | 713 | 50 | 786 | 51 | 720 | 51 | 1836 | 52 | 1473 | 51 | 1433 | 50 | 507 | 51 | 8651 | 51 |
Indigenous status | Yes | 250 | 70 | 962 | 93 | 907 | 89 | 1286 | 91 | 1476 | 95 | 1183 | 84 | 3015 | 85 | 2447 | 85 | 2485 | 86.43 | 897 | 91 | 14,908 | 87 |
Attended within last 24Â months | 295 | 82 | 958 | 93 | 952 | 94 | 1293 | 91 | 1454 | 94 | 1312 | 93 | 3395 | 95 | 2786 | 96 | 2727 | 95 | 969 | 98 | 16,141 | 94 | |
Reason for last attendance | Well Person’s Check | 8 | 2 | 118 | 11.5 | 107 | 11 | 133 | 9 | 104 | 7 | 149 | 10 | 381 | 11 | 375 | 13 | 423 | 15 | 120 | 12 | 1918 | 11 |
Acute care | 151 | 42 | 509 | 49.5 | 528 | 52 | 717 | 50.5 | 750 | 48 | 657 | 46 | 1780 | 50 | 1356 | 47 | 1418 | 49 | 462 | 47 | 8328 | 49 | |
 | Other | 186 | 52 | 339 | 33 | 370 | 36 | 559 | 39.5 | 688 | 44 | 531 | 38 | 1234 | 34 | 1055 | 36 | 886 | 31 | 387 | 39 | 6235 | 36 |
Not recorded | 13 | 4 | 63 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 79 | 6 | 162 | 5 | 107 | 4 | 148 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 627 | 4 | |
Profession patient first seen by | AHP | 53 | 15 | 269 | 26 | 195 | 19 | 335 | 23.59 | 293 | 19 | 265 | 18.7 | 674 | 19 | 617 | 21 | 534 | 18.6 | 154 | 16 | 3389 | 20 |
Nurse | 127 | 35 | 362 | 35 | 473 | 47 | 582 | 40.99 | 774 | 50 | 610 | 43.1 | 1899 | 53 | 1494 | 52 | 1458 | 50.7 | 579 | 58 | 8358 | 49 | |
GP | 71 | 20 | 227 | 22 | 245 | 24 | 329 | 23.17 | 272 | 18 | 292 | 20.6 | 573 | 16 | 514 | 18 | 584 | 20.3 | 188 | 19 | 3295 | 19 | |
 | Other | 15 | 4 | 39 | 4 | 40 | 4 | 79 | 5.56 | 76 | 4 | 71 | 5 | 132 | 4 | 75 | 2 | 121 | 4.2 | 48 | 5 | 696 | 4 |
 | Not recorded | 92 | 26 | 132 | 13 | 62 | 6 | 95 | 6.69 | 139 | 9 | 178 | 12.6 | 279 | 8 | 193 | 7 | 178 | 6.2 | 22 | 2 | 1370 | 8 |