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Palliative Care - Data Sources and Method of Identification
Palliative Care involves care and services for persons who have an incurable illness and are at the end stages of their life. This concept identifies the types of palliative care services available, the data sources related to these services, and de... |
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Pathways To Health and Social (PATHS) Equity
This concept provides information on the Pathways To Health and Social (PATHS) Equity project. |
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Patient Allocation Algorithm: Assigning Patients to Physicians, Physician Groups or Clinics
This concept contains information on the methods used in MCHP research over time to assign patients to physicians, physician groups or clinics in order to define a physician's practice population. A general approach to patient allocation is describe... |
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Patient Characteristics
Patient characteristics are used to confirm the dynamics of the patient-physician link. Physician to patient contact patterns, which can be measured by unreferred ambulatory visits, are related to key patient characteristics including demography, ne... |
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Persistence of Pharmaceutical Use
Persistence is broadly defined as continuing a course of therapy when it is indicated that one should do so. It has also been referred to as "medication adherence", "medication compliance" or (in the United Kingdom) "medication concordance", the ex... |
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Person Years - Calculating in a Cohort Study
In cohort studies, the analysis of data usually involves estimation of rates of disease in the cohort during a defined period of observation. For example, the rate of newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of cancer in a cohort per 100,000 person years ... |
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Personal Care Home (PCH) Admissions/Residency Determination For a Specific Cohort
This concept details the steps required to determine PCH admission/residency for a defined cohort without using personal information from the PCH system. STEPS Use the latest statistical file of admissions (it includes all... |
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Personal Care Home (PCH) Bed Counts
The numbers presented in the linked table below LTC Bed Counts (1985-86 to 1998-99) identify the number of Personal Care Home (PCH) beds found in Manitoba, for 1985/86 to 1989/99. The numbers are broken down by RHA, including the num... |
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Personal Care Homes (PCH) Types
There are 123 personal care homes in Manitoba, all of which are subject to two major categorizations: proprietary/non-proprietary and secular/ethnocultural. |
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Personality Disorders - Measuring Prevalence
This concept defines personality disorders and describes how this medical condition has been defined in MCHP research. This includes a list of databases where this information resides, the ICD diagnosis codes that are used to define it, and a list o... |
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Physical Activity During Leisure Time - Measuring Prevalence
This concept provides information on developing a prevalence measure of "physical activity during leisure time" that can be derived from survey data. Information for this concept is from The Cost of Smoking: A Manitoba Study deliverable by |
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Physician / Hospital Claims
The Medical Services Data in the MCHP Data Repository contains physician service information. Also called Physician claims or |
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Physician Characteristics
Physician profiling is valuable in contributing to an understanding of the role of the primary care physician. These data provide useful information as to the effect of the physician in various areas including needs-based planning, physician styles,... |
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Physician Characteristics - Primary Care Group Practices
Identifying individual (solo) practices and group practices has come up regularly as part of MCHP research projects. When measuring continuity of care this is an important issue because a clinic may be considered a single point of care even though... |
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Physician Consultation Visits
Consultations are a subset of Ambulatory Visits - Physician. Consultations occur when one physician refers a patient to another physician (usually a specialist or surgeon) because of the complexity, obscurit... |
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Physician Price Index
This concept describes a method of costing physician services using a physician price index. NOTE: For an overview of general costing methods (sources of data, types of costs, and approaches) and the methods of costing specific health service... |
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Physician Service Areas (PSAs)
Research results are often subdivided into different regions of Manitoba in order to compare findings. (e.g. How do pap smear numbers differ by region ?). One way to sub-divide the provincial data is into physician service areas. The 45 physician... |
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Physician Service Areas (PSAs) That Fit Inside the Regional Health Authorities (RHAs)
Research results are often subdivided into different regions of Manitoba in order to compare findings. (e.g. How do pap smear numbers differ by region ?). One way to sub-divide the provincial data is into the physician utilization regions. |
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Population Data and Significance Testing: A Brief Discussion
This concept contains a question and responses from two MCHP researchers related to the use of significance testing when using population-based data. |
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Population Denominators
Researchers should be aware that the population used in a denominator might have a significant effect on the rate for beginning and end of life time periods: Where there are deaths before, or births after, the population count. Migra... |
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