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Associate Professor Helena Britt

Director
Family Medicine Research Centre

Level 7/16-18 Wentworth Street
Parramatta NSW 2150

Phone: +61 2 9845 8150
Fax: +612 9845 8155

http://www.fmrc.org.au/
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Publications
Books

Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S, Charles J, Valenti L, Henderson J et al. General practice activity in Australia 2002-03. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003.

O\'Halloran J, Britt H, Valenti L, Harrison C, Pan Y. Older patients attending general practice in Australia 2000-02. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003.

Britt H, Knox S, Miller G.C. 2003. Changes in pathology ordering by GPs i Australia, 1998-2001. AIHW Cat no. GEP 13. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. General Practice Series No.13.Hard copy available from CanPrint (ph: 1300 889 873) Fax order: 0262938333. Can download free of charge from AIHW. Go to the FMRC website (http://www.fmrc.org.au), opening page - what's new? click on this report.

Bayram C, Britt H, Kelly Z, Valenti L. male consultations in general practice in Australia 1999-00. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003.

Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S, Charles J, Valenti L, Henderson J et al. General practice activity in Australia 2001-02. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,2002.

Henderson J, Pan Y, Britt H, Charles J, Miller GC, Knox S. Cardiovascular problems and risk behaviours among patients at general practitioner encounters in Australia 1998-00. Canberra: Australian Insititute of Health and Welfare, 2002.

Britt H, Miller GC, Valenti L. 'It's different in the bush': a comparison of general practice activity in metropolitan and rural areas of Australia 1998-2000. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2001.

Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S, Charles J, Valenti L, Henderson J et al. General Practice activity in Australia 2000-2001. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2001.

Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S. Imaging orders by general practitioners in Australia 1999-00. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2001.

Britt H, Miller GC, Charles J, Knox S, Sayer GP, Valenti L et al. General practice activity in Australia 1999-2000. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2000.

Sayer GP, Britt H, Horn F, Bhasale A, McGeechan K, Charles J et al. Measures of Health and health care delivery in general practice in Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2000.

Britt H, Sayer GP, Miller GC, Charles J, Scahill S, Horn F et al. BEACH Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health: A study of general practice activity, six-month interim report. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 1999.

Britt H, Miller GC, McGeechan K, Sayer GP. Pathology ordering by general practitioners in Australia 1998. Canberra: Department of Health and Aged Care 1999.

Britt H, Sayer GP, Miller GC, Charles J, Scahill S, Horn F et al. General practice activity in Australia 1998-99. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 1999.

Peer Reviewed/Refereed Journal Articles

Stein AN, Britt H, Harrison C, Conway EL, Cunningham A, MacIntyre R. Herpes zoster burden of illness and health care resource utilisation in the Australian population aged 50 years and older. Vaccine, 2009;27(4):520-529.

Fahridin S, Britt H. Cancer screening in general practice. Australian Family Physician. 2009;38(4) 177 - 272.

Cretikos MA, Valenti L, Britt HC, Baur LA, General practice management of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in Australia. Med Care 2008;46(11):1163-1169.

Knox, S.A., Harrison, C.M., Britt, H.C., Henderson, J.V. Estimating prevalence of common chronic morbidities in Australia. Med J Aust 2008;189(2):66-71.

Britt, H.C., Harrison, C.M., Miller, G.C., Knox, S.A. Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in Australia. Med J Aust 2008;189(2):72-77.

Robotin M, Britt H, Knox S, O’Connell D, Penman A: The changing face of skin cancer management in Australian general practice. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2006;2(2):A177

Chen MY, Pan Y, Britt H. and Donovan B. Trends in clinical encounters for pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis in a national sample of Australian general practices. International Journal of STD & AIDS 2006;17:384-386.

O'Halloran J, Miller GC, Britt H. Defining chronic conditions for primary care with ICPC-2. Fam Pract. 2004;21(4):381-386.

Britt H, Vanenti L, Miller GC, Farmer J. Determinants of GP billing in Australia: content and time. Med J Aust. 2004;181(2):100-104.

Charles J, Britt H, Valenti L. The evolution of the general practice workforce in Australia, 1991-2003. Med J Aust. 2004;181(2):85-90.

Charles J, Pan Y, Britt H. 2004 Trends in childhood illness and treatment in Australian general practice 1971-2001. Med J Aust 2004;180:216-219.

Miller G., Britt H, Pan Y, Knox S. Relationship between general practitioner certification and characteristics of care. Med Care 2004;42(8):770-778.

Johnston VJ, Britt H, Pan Y, Mindel A. The management of sexually transmitted infrections by Australian general practitioners. Sex Transm Infect. 2004;80(3):212-215.

O'Halloran J, Britt H. General practice encounters with older Australians. Australas J Ageing 2004;23:7-12.

Gruen RL, Knox S, Britt H, Bailie RS. The Surgical Nosology In Primary-care Settings (SNIPS): a simple bridging classification for the interface between primary and specialist care. BMC Health Serv Res. 2004;4(1):8.

Charles J, Valenti L, Britt H. GP visits by health care card holders. A secondary analysis of data from Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH), a national study of general practice activity in Australia. Aust Fam Physician 2003;32:85-8, 94.

McManus P, Mant A, Mitchell P, Britt H, Dudley J. Use of antidepressants by general practitioners and psychiatrists in Australia. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2003;37:184-9.

Bridges-Webb C, Wolk J, Britt H, Pond D. The management fo dementia in general practice. A field test of guidlines. Aust Fam Physician 2003;32:283-5.

Britt H, Valenti L, Miller G. Time for care. Length fo general practice consultations in Australia. Aust Fam Physician 2002;31:876-80.

Gruen RL, Knox S, Britt H. Where there is no surgeon: the effect of specialist proximity on general practitioners' referral rates. Med J Aust. 2002;177:111-5.

Knox SA, Britt H. A comparison of general practice encounters with patients from English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds. Med J Aust. 2002;177:98-101.

Zwar N, Henderson J, Britt H, McGeechan K, Yeo G. Influencing antibiotic prescribing by prescriber feedback and management guidelines: a 5-year follow-up. Fam Pract 2002;19:12-7.

Britt H. General practice activity in Australia 1998-1999. NSW Public Health Bulletin 1999;10:167-9.

Bhasale AL, Miller GC, Reid SE, Britt HC. Analysing potential harm in Australian general practice: an incident-monitoring study. Med J Aust. 1998;169:73-6.

Britt H, Miller GC, and Sayer GP. Assessment of Medicare costs incurred by Registrars and development of a model for future cost assessment in the new funding agreement. $9,700 (Three weeks). 1998 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Britt H, Angelis M, Harris E. The reliabilty and validity of doctor-recorded morbidity data in active data collection systems. Scand J Prim Health Care 1998;16:50-5.

Britt H. Reliability of central coding of patient reasons for encounter in general practice, using the International Classification of Primary Care. Journ Informatics in Prim Care 1998;may:3-7.

Other publications

Britt H, Miller G.C, Charles J, Bayram C, Pan Y, Henderson J, Valenti J, O`Halloran J, Harrison C, Fahridin S. General practice activity in Australia 2006-07, General practice series no. 21.2008. Cat. no. GEP 21. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Britt H. BEACH Bettering the evaluation And Care of Health 2001-2002 (summary of results). Aust Fam Physician 2003;32:59-63.

Britt H. BEACH- bettering the evaluation and care of health: a continuous national study of general practice activity. Commun Dis Intell 2003;27:391-3.

Britt H, Miller GC, Knox S, Charles J, Valenti L, Henderson J et al. Bettering the Evaluation And Care of Health. BEACH - Bettering the Evaluation And Care of Health. National Networks 2002.

Britt H. The International Classification of Primary care (ICPC-2 and ICPC-2 Plus). Coding Matters 2002;9:3.

Britt H. The BEACH Program. GPinfonet 2002;6:8.

Britt H, BEACH Bettering the evaluation And Care of Health. Fam Pract Wonca News 1998;15:vii-viii.

Monographs

AIHW GP Statistics and Classification Unit. Risk factors of patients on lipid lowering medications. Britt, H. (50).2003. Sydney, University of Sydney. Sand abstracts from the BEACH program. 5-3-2004.

AIHW GP Statistics and Classification Unit. Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Britt, H. (28). 2002. Sydney, University of Sydney. Sand abstracts from the BEACH program. 5-3-2004.

AIHW GP Statistics and Classification Unit. Cardiovascular disease. Britt, H. (4). 2000. Sydney, University of Sydney. Sand abstracts from the BEACH program. 5-3-2004.

Commissioned reports

Miller G, Britt H, Pan Y, Knox S. Report to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners: FRACGP: Does it make a difference? 2002. Sydney, Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney.

Britt H, Miller G, Sayer GP, McGeechan K. Report to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners: FRACGP: Analysis of past registrar A1 Medicare claims and predicted costs of such claims 1999-2001 inclusive. 1998. Sydney, Family Medicine Research Unit, University of Sydney.

Editorials

Britt H. To err is human...Aust Fam Physician 2001;30:289-90.

Britt HC, Miller GC. The BEACH study of general practice. Med J Aust. 2000;173:63-4.

Letters to Editor

Britt H, Miller G. General practice medical records [correspondence in reply]. Aust Fam Physician 2003;24:2250.

Harrison CM, Britt HC. Prescriptions for antipsychotics in general practice (letter). Med J Aust. 2003;178:468-9.

Miller G, Britt H. ICPC-2-E: the electronic version ICPC-2. Fam Pract 2000;17:448.

Reports

Britt H, Miller GC (Eds). 2009. General practice in Australia, health priorities and policies 1998 to 2008. Joint report by the Uni. Sydney and AIHW. General practice series no. 24. Cat. no. GEP 24. Canberra. AIHW

Projects

BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health)

Britt H, Miller G.

The BEACH program is a continuous, national, cross-sectional study of general practice activity in Australia. Each year, approximately 1,000 randomly sampled recognised, practising GPs from across the country provide details about 100,000 clinical encounters with (unidentified) patients. BEACH is unique, being the only continuous randomised study of general practice activity in the world, and the only national program that provides direct linkage of management actions (e.g. prescriptions, referrals, investigations) to the problem under management.

BEACH is conducted by the Australian General Practice Statistics and Classification Centre (AGPSCC), a collaborating centre of the Family Medicine Research Centre (FMRC) at the University of Sydney and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The program's aims are to provide a reliable and valid data collection process for general practice that is responsive to the ever-changing needs of information users; to establish an ongoing database of GP-patient encounter information; and to assess patient risk factors and health states, and the relationship these factors have with health service delivery. The program commenced in 1998 and has attracted funding of more than $12 million to date from government instrumentalities and private industry.

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