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Access to Home Care
This concepts describes three measures that were developed to measure the populations access to Home Care. These include: Percent of Residents in Home Care; New Home Care Clients; and Days Registered with the Home Care Program... |
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Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) - Adapting the ICES AMI mortality model to Manitoba data
The ICES Practice Atlas describes the creation of a logistic model for predicting mortality 30-days and one year after AMI. This model is used to calculate risk-adjusted mortality rates, which form the basis for comparisons between various regions a... |
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Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) / Myocardial Infarction (MI) - Definition, Rates and Post-AMI Management
This concept contains a brief conceptual definition of AMI and a detailed operational definition of how MCHP has defined AMI using administrative data. The concept also provides a list of MCHP research that has investigated AMI over time. Each res... |
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Acute Physiology Score (APS)
This concept describes the Acute Physiology Score (APS) and how it is used in Garland et al. (2012) . |
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Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) - Relative Cost Weights
This concept describes the development and use of a costing method using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups® (ACG®) system and Relative Cost Weights. NOTE: For an overview of general costing methods (sources of data, types of ... |
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Adjusted Clinical Groups® (ACG®) - Overview
The Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) system is a population/patient case-mix adjustment system developed by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. The ACG s... |
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Administrative Health Data
This concept contains a description of what Administrative Health data is; a list of some of the characteristics of administrative health data; a link to the MCHP Data Repository web page that lists the administrative health data sets in the MCHP Re... |
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Adult Immunizations
This concept describes the adult immunization program in Manitoba and the methods used to investigate this program as published in the MCHP deliverable Manitoba Immunization Study by Hildeman et al. (2011). The concept include... |
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Adult Learning Centre Enrollment
The province of Manitoba supports the development and delivery of adult focused education programs through Adult Learning Centers (ALC) and community-based literacy programs. These programs are administered by Adult Learning and Literacy (ALL) and ... |
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Age - How to Calculate Using MCHP's Administrative Data
The following is a description of the constraints applied when calculating age and/or setting up age groups using the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) databases. When programming and doing health data analysis, it is common to either orga... |
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Age as a Research Variable - Known Discrepancies
This concept is based on a discussion between one of the MCHP programmers and Pat Nicol regarding the problem of defining AGE for analysis of claims data. While the discussion refers specifically to medical claims data for 1990-1991, the issues are ... |
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Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) / High-Risk Alcohol Use - Methods of Identification
This concept contains information on the methods used in MCHP research to identify the conditions of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and high-risk alcohol use. In Manitoba, there is a concern of the harms associated with misuse of alcohol, which have far... |
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Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Patients - Method of Identification
An Alternate Level of Care (ALC) patient is someone who is occupying an acute care hospital bed but not acutely ill or does not require the intensity of resources or services provided in a hospital setting (e.g.: may no longer need treatment or hosp... |
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Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) Conditions
This concept defines Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) Conditions and describes how these measures are used in MCHP research. Billings et al. (1993) defined Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) Conditions as a set of 28 medical conditions... |
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Ambulatory Visits
This concept provides information on the current definition and method used at MCHP for defining ambulatory visits by a physician, based on data contained in the MCHP Data Repository. The methodology for identifying ambulatory visits underwent a ma... |
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Amenable Hospitalizations
A list of medical conditions that a panel of physicians have agreed should NOT result in untimely death are identified as conditions amenable (responsive) to medical treatment. The "conditions" chosen were intended to be used NOT to provide a defini... |
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American Hospital Formulary Service (AHFS) Pharmacologic-Therapeutic Classification System
The AHFS system for classifying drugs is commonly used in North America. This system is updated once a year, and is published as a book by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ( http://www.ashp.org/ ). See... |
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Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System
The ATC system for classifying drugs is widely used in European countries. ATC classifications are available online, and are updated and published once a year by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ( |
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Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARB) Prescriptions - Defined
This concept describes how angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) prescriptions are identified using administrative data in the MCHP Data Repository. The primary use of ACE inhibitors and ARB prescri... |
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Arthritis - Measuring Prevalence
Arthritis is a group of conditions that affect the health of the bone joints in the body. One in three adult Americans suffer from some form of arthritis and the disease affects about twice as many women as men. Arthritic diseases include rheumatoid... |
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