{"id":674157,"date":"2026-05-16T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674157\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:15:17","slug":"older-patients-seeing-their-usual-gp-linked-to-21-risk-reduction-in-being-hospitalised-aussie-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674157\/","title":{"rendered":"Older patients seeing their usual GP linked to 21% risk reduction in being hospitalised: Aussie study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older patients cared for by their usual GP are up to 21% less likely to be hospitalised or present to the ED than those seeing a new doctor, an Australian study on continuity of care has found.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits for patients seeing their long-term GP included a reduced risk of fractures, unplanned hospitalisations, and hospital visits related to delirium, medication and malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>The study looked at a cohort of 84,000 Australians over 65 who were living at home but had begun to access Home Care Packages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the first six months following home-care entry,\u00a020% continued to see their usual GP, 50% saw a known GP,\u00a0while 30% saw a new GP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Older patients cared for by their usual GP are up to 21% less likely to be hospitalised or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,11910,9933,137,44],"class_list":["post-674157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general-practice","tag-geriatrics","tag-health","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}