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A2RAs
acronym for Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (A2RAs) |
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Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Development Canada (AANDC)
Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Development Canada (AANDC) is "A federal government department that is responsible for meeting the obligations and commitments of the Government of Canada to First Nations, Inuit and Métis, and for fulfilling the constitut... |
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Aboriginal Peoples
The descendants of the original inhabitants of North America. The Canadian Constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people -- Indians, Métis and Inuit. These are three separate people with unique heritages, languages, cultural practices a... |
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Abortion
"Loss of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus; miscarriage." (Olds, SB. et al., 2004). For a list of abortion and ectopic pregnancy diagnosis and procedure/intervention codes used in Brownell et al. (2008) see the |
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Abruptio Placenta
"Partial or total premature separation of a normally implanted placenta." (Olds SB et al., 2004). In Heaman et al. (2012), a woman was considered to have had a placenta previa/abruptio placenta diagnosis if the ICD-10-CA code of O44 or O45 was present. |
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Absent
For students who were supposed to write a standards exam, an outcome of "absent" was assigned when the students were absent on the day or days of the exam (for example, due to illness or medical condition). |
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Academic Year / School Year
The period of time each year when most Kindergarten to grade 12 students attend school sessions, usually from early September to late June. The terms Academic Year and School Year have been used interchangeably in MCHP research. From a programming pers... |
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Access to Home Care
As a measure of home care use, three measures were developed to measure the populations access to home care: 1) Percent of residents in Home Care; 2) Number of new home care clients; and 3) Number of days registered with the home care program (duration). |
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Access to Hospital Services
An indication of the extent to which individuals receive necessary medical care, determined by rates of persons who use specific services in the population. The following 3 indicators are available: 1). rate of persons using very high intensity of care (I... |
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Access to Pharmaceutical Care
The percentage of individuals who receive at least one prescription during the year. To measure trends of pharmaceutical use and cost, Morgan et al. (2003) defined access as the number of discrete patients filling one or more prescriptio... |
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Access to Physician Services
The proportion of people who make at least one ambulatory physician visit throughout the year. |
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Accidental Falls
One of six diagnostic quality indicators (QIs). Events of accidental falls were counted using the ICD-9-CM external cause of injury codes ('E' codes) 880 through 888 in the hospital discharge abstracts data only. An ICD-9-CM 'E' code represents environmen... |
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Accidental Puncture or Laceration
An accidental puncture or laceration is an unintended cut, puncture, perforation or laceration of tissue during a surgical procedure. |
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Accuracy
"... is the degree to which the information correctly describes the phenomena it was designed to measure. It is usually characterized in terms of error in statistical estimates and is traditionally decomposed into bias (systematic error) and variance (ran... |
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Accused Appeal
An accused appeal is a process where a person accused of a crime wants the court to re-ass...
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ACEIs
acronym for Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) |
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Acellular Pertussis (aP) Vaccine
A vaccine to protect against illness due to whooping cough (pertussis); it is a more purified product than the whole cell vaccine, containing only specific proteins as opposed to entire cells. |
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Acellular Pertussis Immunization
See Acellular Pertussis (aP) Vaccine glossary term. |
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ACG®
acronym for the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) Case-Mix System. |
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ACPWC
acronym for Average Cost Per Weighted Case (ACPWC) |
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