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Health Indicators: Indicators of Health Status and Healthcare Use
This concept provides a list of health indicators of health status and healthcare use that are used in MCHP research to measure and compare the health of Manitobans across regions. The majority of information in this concept comes from The 2013 RHA... |
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Health Regions in Manitoba
The term "health region" generally describes geographical areas defined by specific health-related boundaries that allow for area-level analysis and comparison. Over time, different health regions have been defined and used in MCHP research. Thi... |
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Health Status Indicators
A set of population-based health status indicators was developed from multiple administrative data sources - see POPULIS for more information. These indicators were then used to compare the health s... |
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Health Status Indicators - Recommended for Monitoring Regional Health Authority (RHA) Performance and Planning Delivery of Service
MCHP research has found that the following measures are the most useful and can be reported on an annual basis for regional health authorities as well as for sub-areas within the RHAs. |
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Hepatitis B - Method of Identification
This concept provides a working definition of hepatitis B, describes the method used at MCHP to investigate hepatitis B in the administrative data held in the Manitoba Population Research Data Repos... |
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Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) - Method of Identification
This concept provides an overview of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and describes the method used at MCHP to investigate HCV in the administrative data held in the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository. The method includes the algorithm for iden... |
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High Risk Children / High Risk Youths
Researchers at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) have identified children who are at risk for poor long term outcomes. These youth are at risk of failing to graduate from high school, becoming teen parents, and relying on welfare or unem... |
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High School Completion / Graduation and Grade 12 Attainment
High school completion / graduation is frequently used as an outcome measure for a child's level of educational attainment. Attainment of Grade 12 by a certain age, such as 17 years old, provides a similar measure. This concept describes the genera... |
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Home Care and Hospitalizations
Examining home care use around hospitalizations is difficult especially because individuals could have more than one episode of home care, as well as more than one hospital admission. Thus, A Look at Home Care in Manitoba focu... |
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Home Care and Personal Care Homes (PCH)
One of the objectives of Manitoba's Continuing Care Program is to assess and place persons in a long-term care bed if they can no longer be maintained at home safely or economically with home care services, and to provide them with services at home ... |
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Home Care Episodes of Care: Methods for Creating Home Care Episodes
This concept gives a brief description of the methodology used at MCHP to create an episode of home care. Over time, based on a change in the collection of data for home care services in Manitoba, the methodology fo creating an episode of Home Care... |
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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Use
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is medication containing one or more female hormones, commonly estrogen plus progestin (synthetic progesterone). Some women receive estrogen-only therapy (usually women who have had their uterus removed). HRT is mos... |
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Hospital Care Cost Index
This concept describes a method of hospital costing using a Hospital Care Cost Index. NOTE: For an overview of general costing methods (sources of data, types of costs, and approaches) and the methods of costing specific health services (hosp... |
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Hospital Costing in the 1990's
This concept describes a number of approaches to hospital costing that were used in MCHP research during the 1990's. NOTE: For an overview of general costing methods (sources of data, types of costs, and approaches) and the methods of costing... |
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Hospital Costing: Using the 2009 Cost List for Manitoba Hospital Services
This concept contains information presented in the MCHP deliverable The Direct Cost of Hospitalizations in Manitoba, 2005/06 by Finlayson et al. (2009). The concept briefly describes the key terms, data sources, methods and findings ... |
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Hospital Costing: Using the National Health Expenditure (NHEX) Database
This concept describes a hospital costing methodology using data from the National Health Expenditure (NHEX) database. NOTE: For an overview of general costing methods (sources of data, types of costs, and approaches) and the methods of costi... |
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Hospital Days - How to Measure Length of Stay (LOS)
Over time, various methods have been used to count hospital days in MCHP research projects. The three most common methods used are: Use the original length of stay for each separation falling within the year. This may overcount in sm... |
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Hospital Overnight Census Counts
Determining the number of hospital beds in use (people) at any particular point in time is an important part of any study that looks at changes in usage patterns over short periods of time (e.g. seasonal changes due to specific diseases such as th... |
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Hospital Service Codes
This concept identifies service codes that appear in hospital discharge abstracts as well as related notes that are relevant for programmers. Service codes identify the hospital service to which patients are admitted. PSVC1 is the service ... |
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Hospital Types
Hospitals in Manitoba range from small rural institutions having less than fifteen beds, to large urban teaching hospitals with hundreds of beds and a capacity to provide very specialized services. Use of one type of hospital instead of another has ... |
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