In the financial year ending June 2002, 26 689 hip replacements and 26 089 knee replacements (total, 52 778) were performed in Australia.
Hip and knee replacement procedures have increased between 5%–10% each year for the past 10 years, with a combined increase in hip and knee replacement of 13.4% in the past year.
The revision rate for hip replacement surgery in Australia is unknown but is estimated to be 20%–24%; the revision rate for hip replacement surgery in Sweden is 7%.
Although data collection for the Registry is voluntary, it has 100% compliance from hospitals undertaking joint‐replacement surgery
Fibromyalgia subjects were characterized by the greatest disease burden with more comorbidities and pain-related medications, poorer health status, function, sleep, lower productivity, and higher costs.
Objective: To determine the factors associated with general practitioners' current practice location, with particular emphasis on rural location.
Design: Observational, retrospective, case–control study using a self‐administered questionnaire.
Setting: Australian general practices in December 2000.
Participants: 2414 Australian‐trained rural and urban GPs.
Main outcome measure: Current urban or rural practice location.
Results: For Australia as a whole, rural GPs were more likely to be male (odds ratio [OR], 1.42; 95% CI, 1.17–1.73), Australian‐born (OR, 1.95; 95% CI, 1.55–2.45), and to report attending a rural primary school for “some” (OR, 2.21; 95% CI, 1.69–2.89) or “all” (OR, 2.79; 95% CI, 1.94–4.00) of their primary schooling. Rural GPs' partners or spouses were also more likely to report “some” (OR, 2.75; 95% CI, 2.07–3.66) or “all” (OR, 2.86; 95% CI, 2.02–4.05) rural primary schooling. A rural background in both GP and partner produced the highest likelihood of rural practice (OR, 6.28; 95% CI, 4.26–9.25). For individual jurisdictions, a trend towards more rural GPs being men was only significant in Tasmania. In all jurisdictions except Tasmania and the Northern Territory, rural GPs were more likely to be Australian‐born.
Conclusions: GPs' and their partners' rural background (residence and primary and secondary schooling) influences choice of practice location, with partners' background appearing to exert more influence.
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