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Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI)
To examine the relationship of a population's socioeconomic characteristics to its health status and use of health care services, a composite Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI) was developed for the Population Health Information System. From a set ... |
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Socioeconomic Factor Index (SEFI) - Based on the 1986, 1991, and 1996 Census Data
Socioeconomic variables are perhaps the most important predictors of health. Thus, members of MCHP have created indices to examine the relationship of a population's socioeconomic characteristics to its health status and use of health care services.... |
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Socioeconomic Factor Index (SEFI) - Based on the 2001 Census Data
This concept describes the changes in the MCHP Socioeconomic Factor Index (SEFI) measure in 2001 based on the changes in the 2001 Canadian Census data. This concept includes: background information about the SEFI; a brief description of the change... |
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Socioeconomic Factor Index (SEFI) - Version 2 (SEFI-2)
This concept describes the methodology for developing the Socioeconomic Factor Index (SEFI) - Version 2 (SEFI-2) and discusses the use of this index in MCHP research. The SEFI is a measure of socioeconomic characteristics based on Canadian Census d... |
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Special Needs Children - Method of Identification from Education Data
This concept briefly discusses the Special Needs data available in the Education database at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). It provides a description of guidelines and criteria used by Manitoba Education to identify children with spec... |
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Standards Tests / Achievement Tests - Test Performance and Outcomes
This concept provides information on Standards Tests / Achievement Tests that are provincial exams written by students in Manitoba. The concept includes background information on the types of tests, identifies the data sources in the MCHP Data Repo... |
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Statistical Analysis of Mean Waiting Times
Administrative data contain a history of contacts in the period before surgery. The preoperative visit to the operating surgeon occurs in a high proportion of cases and makes sense to most clinicians as being the beginning of the wait for sur... |
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Statistics Canada Linked Data: Notes from the Field
The most important part of working with this particular linked dataset, and probably datasets in general, is understanding what the variables mean and how they are coded. This is aided by studying the codebook, where available, and by running freque... |
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Statistics for Large Databases
This concept provides a list of statistical tools and approaches that have been used at MCHP. Many of them are particularly useful in working with large databases. Researchers and programmers might look here for an introduction to these tools and to... |
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Stroke - Measuring Prevalence
A stroke occurs when there is a sudden death of brain cells due to a lack of oxygen when the blood flow to the brain is impaired by blockage or rupture of an artery to the brain. Symptoms of a stroke depend on the area of the brain affected. The mos... |
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Substance Use Disorders / Substance Abuse - Measuring Prevalence
This concept defines substance use disorders / substance abuse 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 de... |
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Suicide and Attempted Suicide (Intentional Self Inflicted Injury)
This concept contains operational definitions for both suicide and attempted suicide. An alternative term used by many researchers for attempted suicide is intentional self-inflicted injury. Typically, the definition for suicide is taken directly f... |
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Surgery Dates
It is sometimes necessary to "fix" missing surgical procedure dates. There are 12 fields for surgical dates (DATE01-DATE12) that correspond to the 12 fields for surgical codes (SC01-SC12) on the hospital claims (from 1987 onward). Sur... |
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Surgical/Medical Outpatient Identification
This concept discusses the methods used at MCHP to identify surgical and medical outpatient cases that can then be used for further analyses. In general, the Transaction Code (TRANSACT='3' or '5') or Admission Status (ADSTAT='4') is used to identify... |
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Surgical/Medical/Obstetrical Inpatient Identification
This concept discusses the methods used at MCHP to identify surgical, medical and obstetrical inpatient cases that can be used for further analyses. In general, a Transaction Code is used to identify the inpatient cases, and then one of three differ... |
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Survival Analysis
Survival data is any data that deals with time until the occurrence of any well-defined event such as: death from a specific cause the onset of disease readmission e.g. of a patient in whom disease had been in remission recov... |
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Syphilis - Method of Identification
This concept provides a working definition of syphilis and describes the methods used at MCHP to investigate syphilis in the administrative data held in the Manitoba Population Research Data Reposito... |
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