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Ambulatory Physician Visits
See Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Ambulatory Sensitive Hospitalizations
Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive (ACS) Conditions . |
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Ambulatory Visit Rate (Physician Visits)
The average number of visits to all physicians (General Practitioners (GP) / Family Practitioners (FP) (now referred to as Family Physicians) and specialists) per resident in a fiscal year. |
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Ambulatory Visit Rates
Number of visits to physicians or nurse practitoners that occur outside of a hospital setting, per person-year in 2009/10 and 2014/15. |
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Ambulatory Visit Rates to Specialists
The average number of ambulatory visits to specialist physicians per resident in a fiscal year. Values are adjusted to reflect the total population of Manitoba (males and females combined). |
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Ambulatory Visits (Physician Visits)
See Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Ambulatory Visits (Physicians)
See Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Ambulatory Visits - Physician
Ambulatory visits include almost all contacts with physicians; this includes office visits, walk-in clinics, home visits, personal care home (PCH)/nursing home visits and visits to outpatient departments. The type of service provided is defined by a tarif... |
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Ambulatory Visits - Primary Care Provider / Ambulatory Primary Care Visits
Ambulatory visits – Primary care provider is defined as the number visits to a primary care provider in an outpatient setting. Primary care providers are professionals that provide primary care services to patients. In MCHP research, primary care provid... |
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Ambulatory Visits by Age and Sex
This indicator measures the average number of visits to physicians and nurse practitioners by resident age and sex. Crude average rates are calculated. |
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Ambulatory Visits to Specialists / Ambulatory Specialist Visits
The average number of ambulatory visits (including consultations) made to specialist physicians per resident per year. Specialist physicians include all internal medicine specialists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, obstetricians & gynecologists, and surgeo... |
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Amenable Hospitalizations
Medical conditions which a panel of physicians have agreed should not result in untimely death. |
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American Hospital Formulary Service (AHFS) Pharmacologic-Therapeutic Classification System
A drug classification system commonly used in North America; it uses 6 digit codes, which are arranged in a step-up/step-down manner. |
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AMI
acronym for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) |
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Amputation
Removal of part or all of a body part enclosed by skin. In the First Nations Report (Martens et. al., 2002), amputation was defined as any hospitalization for a lower limb amputation (ICD-9-CM of 84.40, 84.45-84.48 present in any procedure field) where th... |
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AMR
acronym for Adjusted Mortality Ratio (AMR) |
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Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
A statistical technique that tests the significance of the differences in means between two or more groups, by comparing the variation between the groups with the variation within them. |
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Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Drug Classification System
A drug classification system widely used for research purposes. The drugs are divided into different groups at five levels according to the organ or system on which they act and/or therapeutic and chemical characteristics: anatomical group; ... |
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Androgen Use
The percentage of residents 40+ who received at least one prescription for androgens (male hormones) over five fiscal years. Androgens included are Testosterone and Andropause drugs. |
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Angiogram
An image obtained using a radiographic technique, which involves the injection of a radio-opaque (shows up on X-ray) contrast material into a blood vessel for the purpose of identifying its anatomy on X-ray. This technique is used to image arteries in the... |
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