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CADHAM Provincial Laboratory (CPL) - Overview of Services and Data
This concept provides information about the CADHAM Provincial Laboratory (CPL), based on a presentation by Matt Dahl at the August 22, 2012 Data Analyst meeting and the deliverable A Systematic Investigation of Manitoba's Provincial Laborator... |
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Caesarean Section / Cesarean Section (C-Section)
A caesarean section (C-section) is a procedure in which a baby is surgically extracted (removed) from the uterus, rather than being born vaginally. This concept describes the methods and definitions used in MCHP research over time to define and ide... |
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Calculating Costs/Expenditures for Pharmaceuticals
The addition of pharmaceutical data to the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository in 1995 has given MCHP the ability to study population-based patterns of pharmaceutical use, costs and health outcomes for users of specific types of pharmaceuti... |
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Calculating Hospital Costs Using Cost Per Weighted Case (CPWC) / Cost of a Standard Hospital Stay (CSHS) Values
This concept describes the methods that have been used over time at MCHP for calculating hospital costs using a Cost Per Weighted Case (CPWC) / Cost of a Standard Hospital Stay (CSHS) value. The concept includes a definition and general description ... |
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Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES)
This concept provides information on the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) project. Currently, this concept includes: a project summary, a list of publi... |
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Cancer Diagnoses Validity / Agreement In Administrative Health Data
This concept contains a description of a method that investigates the diagnostic validity / level of agreement of cancer diagnoses codes that are recorded in different administrative health data sets, and the findings of this investigation. The inf... |
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Capture-Recapture Method of Estimating Population Size
This concept describes the capture-recapture method of estimating population size, as it was used to estimate the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Chartier et al. (2015). This includes a general description of the capture... |
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Cardiac Catheterization / Diagnostic Angiogram
Cardiac catheterization is the most accurate method for evaluating and defining ischemic heart disease (IHD), also known as coronary artery disease (CAD). It is used to identify the location and severity of CAD. During cardiac catheterization, a ... |
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Case Mix Groups (CMG™) - Overview
This concept describes the use of a patient classification system called Case Mix Groups (CMG™) and their inclusion in hospital discharge abstract data held in the Data Repository at MCHP. Associated with CMGs are a day surgery classification sy... |
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Case Mix Groups (CMGs™) versus Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs™)
1. Case Mix: Both are patient classification systems that provide ways of describing the types of patients a hospital treats (its case mix).group cases into manageable number of meaningful patient categories patients with... |
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Cataract Surgery
Cataracts occur when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy and normal vision is impaired. There are many causes of cataracts including (but not limited to) cortisone medication, trauma, diabetes, and aging. The symptoms of cataracts include double or b... |
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Cause of Death Coding in the MCHP Vital Statistics Mortality Registry Data
This concept contains information on how cause of death information is collected and coded in Manitoba, and the type of data that is available in the MCHP Vital Statistics Mortality Registry. It briefly describes the process for collecting and codi... |
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Cervical Cancer Screening (Pap test)
Also called a Pap (Papanicolaou) test, cervical cancer screening is based on the examination of cells collected from the cervix to reveal pre-malignant (before cancer) and malignant (cancer) changes as well as changes due to non-cancerous conditions... |
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Charge
This concept contains information relating to “charges” in the Canadian Criminal...
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Charge Category - Justice System
This concept contains information about a variable that was developed to provide hig...
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Charge Disposition Outcome
This concept contains information about a variable known as “DISP_TYPE” which ...
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Charge Status
This concept contains information about a variable known as “CHARGE_STATUS”. Th...
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Charlson Comorbidity Index
This concept contains information on the Charlson Comorbidity Index including: a basic description of the Charlson Comorbidity Index, how the Index is used at MCHP, and a brief historical perspective on the development and changes to the Index over... |
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Child Health Indicators (2008)
Measuring health is a very complex issue -- there is no quick and easy way to say whether a group of children are healthy. So, in our Manitoba Child Health Atlas Update (Brownell et al. 2008) we used measures that are thought to indic... |
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Child Health Indicators (2012)
This concept contains a list of the child health indicators used in the MCHP Deliverable How are Manitoba's Children Doing? (2012). The list of indicators are divided into four different sections, including: |
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