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Antipsychotic Medications
Medications used to counteract or diminish the symptoms of psychotic conditions (i.e., hallucinations, paranoia, etc.). These medications are also referred to as neuroleptics. Typical neuroleptics define more traditional or 'older' antipsychotic medicatio... |
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Antipsychotic Medications (children)
Medications that traditionally have been used to treat children with conditions such as psychoses or Tourette Syndrome, and in some cases to lessen severe self-injurious or aggressive behaviours which can be associated with autism and mental retardation (... |
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Antipsychotic Prescriptions
Antipsychotics are a type of medication typically prescribed to treat psychosis, and other psychiatric disorders, but also have been used as anti-nauseants. Antipsychotic drugs include older agents (e.g., haloperidol) and newer agents termed atypical anti... |
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Antipsychotics
Antipsychotics are a broad class of medications used to treat a variety of psychiatric conditions. The class consists of newer or second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) also named "atypical" antipsychotics, which include clozapine, risperidone, olanzapin... |
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Anxiety /Anxiety States
Anxiety or anxiety states are defined as the presence of: one or more hospitalizations, or admission from the Mental Health Management Information System (MHMIS), with a diagnosis of anxiety states, phobic disorders, or obsessive-compulsive diso... |
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Anxiety Disorders
A group of psychiatric conditions involving excessive anxiety (i.e. excessive feelings of apprehension or fear) that persist to the point that they interfere with daily life for an extended period of time. In Doupe et al. (2008), this included anxiety sta... |
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Anxiolytic Medications
Medications used to treat anxiety and insomnia disorders and symptoms. For a list of anxiolytic medications, including the DINs and ATC codes, used in the Child Health Atlas Update (2008), please see the Links section below. |
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Any Diagnosis of Maternal Mental Illness
Children whose mother had at least one diagnosis of mood and anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia) or personality disorders. |
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Any Disorders
In Martens et. al. (2004), "Any Disorders" was defined as the presence of one or more ICD-9-CM code for any psychiatric condition, in either hospital discharge abstracts or medical services/physician claims data. |
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Any Mental Disorder / Any Mental Health Disorder / Any Mental Illness
This is a term used in MCHP research to describe a combination of individual mental illnesses / mental health disorders that are grouped together for analysis in the research. Various combinations of individual mental illnesses have been used, depending ... |
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Apgar Scores
Apgar scores measure the physiological well-being of newborn babies, and are recorded for virtually all births in hospital. A score of zero, one, or two is given for each of five vital signs that are assessed at one and five minutes after birth. These fiv... |
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APP
acronym for Alternate Payment Plan (APP) AND Assigned Practice Population (APP) |
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Appendectomy
The surgical removal of an inflamed or infected appendix (appendicitis). See MedlinePlus® - Health Topics - Appendicitis for more information. MCHP has used the following ICD-9-CM proc... |
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Apprehended at Birth / Taken into CFS Care at Birth
This defines children who are taken into Child and Family Services (CFS) care at or near the time of birth. Apprehensions at birth often occur as a result of a "birth alert" that is issued by CFS when they are aware of expectant mothers considered to... |
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Appropriate-for-Gestational-Age (AGA)
A birth was considered to be appropriate for gestational age if the birth weight was between the 10th and 90th percentiles for the infant's gestational age and sex. (Kramer et al., 2001). |
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Appropriateness
A process measure; it is the subset of quality that is concerned with determining whether the right thing was done for the patient. In the context of the use of pharmaceuticals, appropriateness measures whether the right drug was prescribed for the right ... |
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Area Suppression
To protect the confidentiality of individual responses Statistics Canada has adopted a technique known as area suppression. This involves the deletion of all characteristic data for geographic areas with populations below a specified size. |
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Area-Based Socio-economic Measure (ABSM)
An Area-Based Socio-economic Measure (ABSM) is a socio-economic measure based on economic and/or social data from the Canadian Census for a specific geographic area (e.g.: dissemination area (DA)). Four specific ABSMs have been developed by MCHP, includi... |
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Arrival Date
Date of arrival in Canada as a temporary or permanent resident. This may occur before the L...
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Arthritis
A group of conditions that affect the health of the bone joints in the body. Arthritic diseases include rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, which are autoimmune diseases; septic arthritis caused by joint infection; and the more common osteoarthr... |
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