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Report on performance
Performance
Issues identified
The issues identified in PSR cases this year generally related to:
- inappropriate use of MBS attendance items
- inappropriate use of diagnostic imaging or pathology
- inappropriate use of MBS procedural items
- inappropriate prescribing
More detail on these issues can be found in Table 3.
Table 3: Issues identified in PSR cases, 2007–08
| Inappropriate use of MBS attendance items |
- Up-coding of consultation items
- Inappropriate use of chronic disease management items
- Inappropriate referrals to allied health providers using team care arrangement items
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| Inappropriate use of diagnostic imaging or pathology |
- CT scans without clinical justification
- Unnecessary repeated pathology testing, including frequent blood lipid levels
- Unusual and expensive blood tests without clinical justification
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| Inappropriate use of MBS procedural items |
- Up-coding of skin cancer removal items
- Up-coding of laceration repair items
- Excessive use of skin flap items when treating skin lesions
- Inappropriate use of vascular diagnostic items
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| Inappropriate prescribing |
- Up-coding of fracture items
- Excessive prescription of lipid lowering drugs
- Excessive prescription of narcotic and benzodiazepine drugs
- Unnecessary use of antibiotics
- Inappropriate choice of antibiotics
- Prescription of anti-inflammatory and H2 blocking drugs against the PBS guidelines
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