- Title
- Acne in primary care: a cross-sectional analysis
- Creator
- Brown, Hilary; Tapley, Amanda; FitzGerald, Kirsten; Magin, Parker; van Driel, Mieke L.; Davey, Andrew R.; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Ball, Jean I.; Morgan, Simon; Patsan, Irena; Mulquiney, Katie J.; Spike, Neil A.
- Relation
- Australian Journal of General Practice Vol. 48, Issue 11, p. 781-788
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-02-19-4864
- Publisher
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background and objectives: Acne is a common chronic condition. The aim of this study was to establish the frequency and associations of consultations for acne by early-career general practitioners (general practice registrars). Method: The study was a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training study. Results: During 2010-18, 2234 registrars contributed data for 289,594 consultations and 453,344 problems/diagnoses. Acne comprised 0.38% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.36, 0.40) of all problems/diagnoses. Nine per cent of patients were new to the practice (odds ratio [OR] 1.82; 95% CI: 1.62, 2.05) and 61% were existing patients of the practice but new to the registrar (OR 1.78; 95% CI: 1.46, 2.18). There was a lower frequency of acne presentations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients (OR 0.29; 95% CI: 0.14, 0.58) and by patients in regional/remote/very remote areas (OR 0.75; 95% CI: 0.58, 0.95). Discussion: The majority of the patients had an existing diagnosis of acne. That Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and patients in rural/remote areas present less frequently with acne requires further study.
- Subject
- acne; chronic disease; primary health care; cross-sectional studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1469824
- Identifier
- uon:48317
- Identifier
- ISSN:2208-7958
- Language
- eng
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