Proportion of patients aged 45 and over who rated the quality of care received from their usual GP or others in their usual place of care, in the preceding 12 months, as excellent or very good. Based on the question: 'Overall, how do you rate the quality of health care that you have received from your usual GP or usual place of care over the last 12 months?' The response options were: 1. Excellent, 2. Very good, 3. Good, 4. Fair, 5. Poor, 6. Not stated, 7. Not applicable.

The sum of calibrated sample weights for patients who answered 'Excellent' or 'Very good' to the survey question.

The sum of calibrated sample weights for all responses to the question by patients with a usual place of care and/or a usual GP and visited either of them in the previous 12 months.

Not stated' and 'Not applicable' were excluded from the denominator.

Results are presented as crude rates due to the small differences with direct age-standardisation rates (to the Australian estimated resident population) which are less appropriate for the focus on patient-reported experience measures.

By Primary Health Network (PHN), sex, age group in years (45-54, 55-64, 65-74, 75-84, 85+), remoteness area (major cities, inner regional, outer regional, remote/very remote), main language spoken at home (English, other language), private health insurance coverage, highest level of educational attainment, self-assessed patient health status, number of long-term health conditions (none, 1, 2, 3 or more).

The Survey of Health Care 2016

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