Trends in genital warts by socioeconomic status after the introduction of the national HPV vaccination program in Australia: analysis of national hospital data

Table 1 Admissions involving a diagnosis of genital warts by sex, age, socioeconomic status and area of residence, July 2004–June 2011

^aBased on the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage of the admitted individual’s area of residence [7, 8]. ^bAdmissions involving a procedure related to follow-up of cervical screening were excluded from this sub-analysis (see Additional file1: Table S1) ^cAdmissions were stratified according to whether the admission involved a diagnosis or treatment procedure code associated with anal warts, or whether only non-anal sites were recorded (Additional file1: Table S1); admissions where the warts site could not be ascertained were excluded from this sub-analysis ^dBased on the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) remoteness area of the admitted individual’s area of residence [10]. “Other areas” includes the ASGC categories Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote and Very Remote. In cases where the NHMD did not record remoteness area (RA) for an admission, this was assigned based on a standard Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) mapping for the admitted individual’s SLA [9]. In cases where that SLA contained locations with different levels of remoteness, the admission was assigned according to the standard ABS weighting for each remoteness area within the SLA [9]

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