Table 3.

Overall Temporal trend in DR screening by gender and MBS item per 100,000 people with diabetes

	MBS no. 12,326		MBS no. 12,325		Total		IRR (95% CI)	p-value
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
2016 to 2017	20	20	20	31	40	51	Ref*
2017 to 2018	57	49	67	99	124	148	0.95 (0.80–1.15)	0.620
2018 to 2019	76	66	93	143	169	209	0.99 (0.83–1.18)	0.910
2019 to 2020	132	134	78	104	210	238	0.91 (0.77–1.09)	0.310
2020 to 2021	93	88	86	113	179	201	0.91 (0.76–1.08)	0.267
2021 to 2022	75	68	52	60	127	128	0.81 (0.67–0.97)	0.025
2022 to 2023	105	73	47	62	152	135	0.71 (0.59–0.85)	< 0.001
2023 to 2024	44	41	62	81	106	122	0.93 (0.77–1.12)	0.442

*For interaction term, uptake of males in the year 2016–2017 was taken as reference