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Comprehensive NeuroScience ™ of Canada (CNSC)
"Comprehensive NeuroScience of Canada, a wholly-owned subsidiary of North Carolina-based Care Management Technologies, Inc., is a health services provider with Canadian headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. CNSC has deep clinical expertise and extensive exp... |
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Comprehensiveness of Practice
Comprehensiveness of practice among physicians is the amount of work done by physicians outside of their offices. |
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Computerized / Computed Tomography (CT) Scans
The CT San is a radiological diagnostic test that can examine internal body structures. CT scans are pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images and turns them into pictures on a screen. The ... |
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Concentration of Care Index
See Herfindahl Index. |
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Concurrency (of Pharmaceuticals)
Concurrency (of pharmaceuticals) can be measured in several ways to provide information on whether two (or more) drugs are being dispensed at the same time. |
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Concurrent Criterion Validity
The extent to which a newly derived measurement correlates with a "gold standard" (i.e., generally accepted as accurate) value, measured at the same point in time. For example, hospital inpatient admissions recorded in the hospital discharge abstracts dat... |
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Conditional Logistic Regression
Conditional logistic regression (CLR) is primarily used in case-control or retrospective studies where a study participant with a particular condition or treatment (i.e., case) is matched to a study participant without that condition or treatment (i.e., c... |
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Conditions
The diagnoses and procedures associated with a patient's treatment, which are usually recorded using some form of classification and coding system, such as ICD-9-CM, or DSM-III. |
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Conditions Amenable To Medical Treatment
Medical conditions which a panel of physicians have agreed should NOT result in untimely death. There are specific ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes defined for this. |
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Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder is characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of antisocial, aggressive, or defiant behaviour. The behaviour is more severe than ordinary childish mischief or adolescent rebelliousness and is enduring (six months or longer). Exa... |
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Confidence Interval (CI) / Confidence Limits (CL)
The Confidence Interval is an interval, calculated from data, which contains a population parameter, such as the population median or mean, with specified probability. For example, a 95% confidence interval (written as "95% CI") would have a 95% pr... |
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Confounding Variable
Two variables are confounded when their effects on a dependent variable cannot be distinguished from each other. If confounding variables are not measured and included in the analysis, bias may result in the conclusion of the study. |
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Congenital Anomalies
An abnormality of structure, function or body metabolism that is present at birth (even if not diagnosed until later in life) and results in physical or mental disability, or is fatal. (March of Dimes Resource Center. Birth Defects. (1998) - |
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Congenital Heart Defect
A problem with the structure or function of the heart at birth. |
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Congestive Cardiac Failure (CCF)
see Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) . |
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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
A chronic disease that is often called congestive cardiac failure (CCF) or heart failure. CHF is characterized by the inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, or by requiring elevated filling pressures in order to ... |
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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Prevalence
The percent of residents aged 40 and older with congestive heart failure in a one-year period. For information on the methods used to define CHF in MCHP research, including the ICD codes, please see the Congestive H... |
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Conservable Bed Days
Conservable Bed Days has been defined by ICES as "the number of days that might be conserved if a hospital decreased the adjusted average length of stay (LOS) from existing levels to the benchmark levels". |
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Constant Dollar
The value of currency in a single year, termed the base year, that is applied consistently to each year of data in the research project time period. Source: modified from Statistics Canada definition available at: |
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Construct Validity
Tests of construct validity assess the extent to which a measure corresponds with an acceptable theory or assumption (Last, 2001). For example, it seems reasonable to expect that a greater number of emergent Emergency Department (ED) patients should ar... |
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