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All Cause Five-Year Mortality Rates for Individuals with Diabetes
This is the age- and sex-adjusted mortality rate (given as a percentage, i.e., deaths per 100) for residents aged 19 and older with diabetes. A cohort diagnosed or treated for diabetes was identified using three fiscal years of data (1999/00-2001/02)-... |
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All Injuries
Describes a grouping of all the different types of injury indicators and their ICD-9-CM codes: motor vehicle (E810-819), falls (E880-888), vehicular non-traffic (E820-E829), drowning (E910-E915), poisoning (E850-E869), fire (E890-899), suicide (E950-E959)... |
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ALOS
acronym for Average Length Of Stay (ALOS) |
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Alternate Level of Care (ALC)
In Fransoo et al. (2013), alternate level of care (ALC) is defined as follows ... a patient may be designated as ALC if he or she is occupying an acute care hospital bed but is no longer acutely ill and does not require the intensity of resources and serv... |
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Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Criteria
Guidelines developed by HSURC (Health Services Utilization and Research Commission) of Saskatchewan that were adopted and modified to Manitoba conditions, for the development of 13 Alternate Levels of Care (ALC). |
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Alternate Payment Plan (APP)
Type of compensation for physicians who are not paid on a fee-for-service basis but are either salaried, sessional, or hired on contract. These physicians submit claims (shadow billings) for administrative purposes only. |
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Alternative Services
Health care services other than those provided by hospitals. |
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Alzheimer / Dementia Disorders
"Alzheimer's disease (AD) ... is the most common form of dementia." ( Wikipedia - Alzheimer's disease - accessed October 5, 2010). See |
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Ambulatory (walk-in) Consultations
See Consultations . |
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Ambulatory (walk-in) Visits
See Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Ambulatory Care
Medical services provided on an outpatient service. This includes: day surgery procedures, emergency department services and services provided in outpatient clinics such as rehabilitation and diagnostic services. In previous research, this term was use... |
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Ambulatory Care Group
See the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) Case-Mix System glossary term. |
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Ambulatory Care Physician Visits
see Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) Conditions
A set of 28 medical conditions / diagnoses "for which timely and effective outpatient care can help to reduce the risks of hospitalization by either preventing the onset of an illness or condition, controlling an acute episodic illness or condition, or... |
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Ambulatory Care Visit
See Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Ambulatory Consultation Rate
The average number of ambulatory consultations per resident (all ages) in a given year. Consultations are a subset of ambulatory visits: they occur when one provider refers a patient to another provider (usually a specialist or surgeon) because of the com... |
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Ambulatory Consultation Visit Rates
Number of ambulatory consult visits per person-year in 2009/10 and 2014/15 with any of the following tariffs: 8440, 8449, 8550, 8553, 8556, or 8557. |
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Ambulatory Consultations
see Consultations (Ambulatory) |
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Ambulatory Diagnostic Groups (ADG)
Now known as Aggregated Diagnosis Groups® , Ambulatory Diagnostic Groups were used in earlier versions (prior to 2001, version 5 release) of the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) case-mix system when it was called the Ambulat... |
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Ambulatory Physician Expenditures Per Resident
The average amount spent for ambulatory physician visits by Manitoba Health for residents of a given region. It is influenced by the number of visits per resident and the expenditures per visit. |
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