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Teenage Pregnancy / Teen Pregnancy
The teen pregnancy rate is defined as the rate of pregnancies (including live births, stillbirths, abortions, ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages) of women under the age of 20. In practice, the definition is limited to Manitoba residents and Manito... |
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Tertiary and Non-Tertiary Cases
There are a range of sophisticated hospital-based procedures that are generally expected to be concentrated in a small number of acute care facilities. The Funded Accountability section of Manitoba Health expressed interest in defining a method of d... |
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Time To / From Surgery
This concept describes how cases were defined and the variables used (surgery date, preoperative LOS, postoperative LOS, hospital type) to calculate pre-operative and post-operative length of stay for hip fracture surgery. It also describes how th... |
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Time to First Healthcare Contact in Manitoba
This concept describes how Time to First Healthcare Contact is operationalized for immi...
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Tobit Regression
A special type of regression known as Tobit regression is used to handle the truncation at zero. This regression is used for the analysis of social support income, defined as the sum of Canada Pension and 'income from other government sources'. Tobi... |
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Total Respiratory Morbidity (TRM) - Measuring Prevalence
Total Respiratory Morbidity (TRM) is a measure of several different types of respiratory illness in the population. It includes the following conditions: asthma, acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis, chronic bronchitis, bronc... |
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Transfers
Transfers can be defined using an algorithm, such as the _EPISODE macro (see SAS Code and formats below (internal access only) ) and/or the Transfer From/Transfer To variables in the Hospital Discharge Abstract data. Discuss... |
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Trends in Physical Education in Manitoba High Schools
Currently, the Manitoba government requires all grade 9 and 10 students to take Physical Education (PE) classes in High School. Students are required to take S1 and S2 PE credits to graduate high school, representing 50% health and 50% physical edu... |
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Tuberculosis (TB) - Method of Identification
This concept provides a working definition of tuberculosis (TB) and describes the methods used at MCHP to investigate TB in the administrative data held in the Manitoba Population Research Data Repos... |
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Twins
The study of identical twins is very useful in allowing for the identification of similarities caused solely by environmental factors as opposed to genetic influences. The study of different sex twins can provide comparisons with different se... |
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