Table 4.

Temporal trend for DR screening by MBS item across age groups per 100,000 people with diabetes*

	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020	2020 to 2021	2021 to 2022	2022 to 2023	2023 to 2024
< 25 years
MBS 12,326	40	220	459	499	180	279	439	339
MBS 12,325	120	459	659	579	758	279	299	379
Total	160	679	1118	1078	938	558	738	718
25–44 years
MBS 12,326	16	46	84	182	137	119	116	52
MBS 12,325	42	140	183	133	149	82	90	99
Total	58	186	267	315	286	201	206	151
45–64 years
MBS 12,326	23	56	85	151	102	81	97	44
MBS 12,325	33	93	158	122	117	69	69	89
Total	56	149	243	273	219	150	166	133
65–74 years
MBS 12,326	21	67	67	139	96	74	99	50
MBS 12,325	12	53	64	51	60	40	37	40
Total	33	120	131	190	156	114	136	90
≥ 75 years
MBS 12,326	18	39	40	73	41	33	54	26
MBS 12,325	3	21	21	19	17	14	10	11
Total	21	60	61	92	58	47	64	37

*Three states (TAS, NT & ACT) were excluded as age-group-wise diabetes prevalence data were not available for those states