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Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
Also known as a heart attack, a myocardial infarction occurs when the heart muscle (the myocardium) experiences sudden (acute) deprivation of circulating blood. The interruption of blood is usually caused by narrowing of the coronary arteries leading to a... |
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Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Rates
The number of hospitalizations or deaths due to acute myocardial infarction (also known as heart attack) expressed as a rate per 1,000 residents aged 40 and older during two 5-year periods. Please read the Ac... |
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Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II)
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), is a severity-of-disease classification system calculated using information (values of 12 clinical measurements) from the first 24 hours after admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). This s... |
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Acute Physiology Score (APS)
A component of the APACHE II classification system which measures the physiological condition of the critically ill patients in intensive care units. |
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Acute/Acuteness
Patients assessed as requiring the level of health care services that can only be provided in an acute care hospital, as determined through InterQual criteria. |
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ADCI
acronym for Atypical Diagnostic Coding Index (ADCI) |
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ADD/ADHD
acronym for Attention Deficit Disorder / Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) |
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Addiction Severity Index (ASI)
The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is a validated, standardized tool used frequently with adults seeking treatment for substance-use problems and has been used both for treatment planning and outcome evaluation. It was modified for use with pregnant and p... |
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Adenoidectomy
See Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy . |
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Adequate Prenatal Care
This indicator measures the percent of women who were pregnant and received adequate prenatal care, according to the Revised-Graduated Prenatal Care Utilization Index (R-GINDEX). Please see the |
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ADG
acronym for Aggregated Diagnosis Group (ADG) AND Ambulatory Diagnostic Groups (ADG) (the former title of Aggregated Diagnosis Group). |
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Adjusted
Standardized across groups, in order to allow for comparison across groups. For example, prevalence or rate of an area may be adjusted by age and sex so as to provide an estimate of what an area's prevalence or rate might have been if that area's age and ... |
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Adjusted Clinical Group ® (ACG®) Case-Mix System
The Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) Case-Mix System is a risk adjustment tool developed to measure the illness burden (morbidity) of individual patients and enrolled populations. This system quantifies morbidity by grouping individua... |
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Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) Morbidity Index
See Morbidity Index (ACG®-based) . |
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Adjusted Mortality Ratio (AMR)
See Standardized Mortality / Morbidity Ratio (SMR) . |
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Adjusted Rates
Adjusted rates are crude rate values that are statistically adjusted to control for different age and sex distributions among groups (e.g.: across health regions, community areas, income quintiles, community areas, or Resource Utilization Bands (RUBs)) to... |
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ADL
acronym for Activities of Daily Living (ADL) |
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Administrative Costs
Costs associated with running a facility (e.g. hospital) that are not directly applicable to patient care. |
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Administrative Data
Administrative data refers to information collected "usually by government, for some administrative purpose (e.g., keeping track of the population eligible for certain benefits, paying doctors or hospitals), but not primarily for research or surveillance ... |
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Administrative Health Data
Administrative health data is generated through the routine administration of health care programs. Administrative health databases, developed by provincial governments as a result of universal medical care insurance, are designed to collect and store thi... |
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