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Q1/Q5 Ratio
Ratio used to represent the difference in a variable (e.g. provision or use of medical services, health status) between the wealthiest (Q5) and poorest (Q1) income quintiles. A ratio of 1 signifies the lack of difference between the two quintiles. |
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QIs
acronym for Quality Indicators (QIs) |
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Quadracel®
A commercial brand of a quadravalent vaccine which provides protection against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and poliomyelitis (polio). It is indicated for immunization of infants and children, from two months to six years of age. |
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Quadrivalent
Capable of counteracting four agents (such as a toxin or antigen). |
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Quality Based Incentive Funding (QBIF)
Quality Based Incentive Funding (QBIF) is an approach to physician compensation designed to reward quality processes in primary care. It is being trialed in Manitoba as part of the Physician Integrated Network (... |
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Quality Indicator (QI) - IMPRxOVE Program
Markers that have been developed by Care Management Technologies (CMT) to reflect the presence or absence of potential shortcomings in the provision of care. These indicators are not intended to identify definitive problems in the quality of healthcare pr... |
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Quality Indicator (QI) Timing
a variable used to differentiate between diagnostic QIs that occurred within 30 days of admission to a personal care home (PCH) or 60 days from the time that a person was separated from long-term care in Manitoba (in the vast majority of instances because... |
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Quality Indicator Trigger Rates (QI Trigger Rates)
Calculated for the intervention group physicians and control group physicians as part of the intention-to-treat analysis; and calculated separately for each QI for each month of the study period. The rate is the sum of all QI triggers for the group during... |
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Quality Indicators (QIs) - Quality of Care Indicators
Markers that have been developed at MCHP to reflect the presence or absence of potential shortcomings in the provision of healthcare/primary care. These indicators are not intended to identify definitive problems in the quality of healthcare provision, bu... |
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Quality of Care
The extent to which care meets accepted standards. |
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Quarter
In Raymond et al. (2011), drug utilization was described in a particular quarter of a fiscal year, including: the first quarter (Q1) as April-June, the second quarter (Q2) as July-September, the third quarter (Q3) as October-December and th... |
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Quasi-Equivalent In-Patient Admissions (QEIPA)
For allocating costs between inpatient and outpatient areas, the QEIPA assigns a value of 1.0 to admissions, 0.5 to day surgery, and 0.125 to other types of visits. |
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Quintiles
Quintiles of a distribution were created by dividing the range of values (from the minimum to the maximum) into five equal parts. Using this method of creating quintiles means that there will not necessarily be 20% of the observations within any given qu... |
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