None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
People with cerebral palsy (CP) have significant health issues. We will access National Prescribing Service MedicineWise (NPS) data to provide baseline information about the use of primary care (general practitioner, GP) services by people with CP compared to an age and sex-matched control group without CP. NPS MedicineWise holds deidentified data from 8.6% of GPs in Australia and is considered to be representative of all GPs in this country. We will be able to determine the frequency and reasons for GP visits, medications prescribed and investigations ordered. From this data, we will gather information the health care for this vulnerable population and whether there are barriers that can be addressed.
Interventions
People with cerebral palsy have significant health issues. We will access National Prescribing Service MedicineWise (NPS) data to provide retrospective baseline information about the use of primary care (General Practitioner) services including specialised Medicare item numbers, medications prescribed and investigations ordered. There will be no active participation such as interviews or surveys. All NPS data related to persons with cerebral palsy will be collected. For some General Practices,
People with cerebral palsy have significant health issues. We will access National Prescribing Service MedicineWise (NPS) data to provide retrospective baseline information about the use of primary care (General Practitioner) services including specialised Medicare item numbers, medications prescribed and investigations ordered. There will be no active participation such as interviews or surveys. All NPS data related to persons with cerebral palsy will be collected. For some General Practices, they will have only contributed to NPS MedicineWise for a short period, other practices will have contributed for a longer time. NPS MedicineWise commenced data collection in 2013, some practices already had electronic data at that time so data will date back prior to 2013. Some practices joined NPS MedicineWise only recently and for those practices, there may be only 12 months' of data. We hope to collect data from January 2000 to December 2020, where it is available.
Sponsors
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
All individuals with cerebral palsy whose general practitioners contribute data to NPS MedicineWise. These individuals will be matched with an age and sex-matched control group who do not have cerebral palsy.
Exclusion criteria
None
Outcome results
None listed