Using data from patient interactions in primary care for population level chronic disease surveillance: The Sentinel Practices Data Sourcing (SPDS) project

Table 1 Proportion of local population that had consulted the 17 general practices during the previous 24 months (September 2011 to September 2013)

Illawarra-Shoalhaven SLAs	No. of patients from the SLA within the sample	Proportion of the sample from the SLA (%)	Estimated Resident Population of the SLA, 2011*	Proportion of the SLA population included in the sample (%)
Jervis Bay Territory	6	0.0	387	1.6
Kiama (A)	19769	12.9	20832	94.9
Shellharbour (C)	44971	29.4	66054	68.1
Shoalhaven (C) - Pt A	15347	10.0	34444	44.6
Shoalhaven (C) - Pt B	26000	17.0	61599	42.2
Wollongong (C) - Inner	23351	15.3	104601	22.3
Wollongong (C) Bal	23323	15.3	96614	24.1
Total ^{^}	152767	100	384531	39.7

*ABS [14].
^{^}Total number of patients in the data extract = 164,435; n = 152,767 after excluding patients residing outside the Illawarra-Shoalhaven SLAs and removing patients with geographic data inaccuracies.

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