Proportion of patients aged 45 and over who felt completely or very comfortable talking with their usual GP or others in their usual place of care about personal problems related to their health in the preceding 12 months.

The sum of calibrated sample weights for patients who answered 'Completely comfortable' or 'Very comfortable' 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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