Anne Duggan

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Health Report · 2 June 2014 · 2 Jun 2014 podcast

It just shows us what happens.

But if you look at the result, and it's mapped by Medicare local, so we've got maps of Australia, and there's no trend or pattern that explains this variation.

So in other

Well, we haven't drilled down to that.

Let's look at all those sorts of things.

Let's look at the risk factors for osteoarthritis, which is clearly one of the indications for going on to knee replacement.

And let's look at other things, like if you contemplate osteoarthritis being an indication for knee replacement, well, are we ensuring that people get the other treatment options?

Or is it perhaps some of the variation is due to people going straight to the new

Absolutely.

It's not that

a brief to line the pockets of orthopaedic surgeons, but you know what I mean.

We certainly don't know the answer.

What's the sweet spot?

Where's the point where we're not doing too much because that only gives harm to people?

And where's the point at which we're not doing enough because that's not giving people what they should be having?

But there's a public-private variation too, isn't there?

There's a public-private variation in this, yes?