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Consult Rate
See Consultations (Ambulatory). |
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Consultation Index (CI)
An index developed to measure the extent to which a physician over or under-refers patients compared to the average physician after taking into account the characteristics of their practice population. It is the ratio of the actual number of referred pati... |
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Consultation Visits (Physician)
see Physician Consultation Visits. |
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Consultations (Ambulatory)
Consultations are a subset of ambulatory visits: they occur when one physician refers a patient to another physician (usually a specialist or surgeon) because of the complexity, obscurity or seriousness of the condition, or when the patient requests a s... |
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Consultative Care
See Consultations. |
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Consultive Care
See Consultations. |
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Contacts With Physicians
The number of individuals who made contact with a physician during a specified time period (and/or within other specified criteria). For example: Tataryn et al. (1994) considered contact with a physician to be at least one ambula... |
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Continuing Care
A system of care designed so that clients receive services through one assessment service, and receive services as appropriate to their needs without having to transfer between service organizations. |
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Continuing Student
The term "continuing student" is used to describe students who have not acquired the minimum expectations/outcomes to proceed to the next grade level, and are continuing in the program at the same grade level for part or all of the next school year. N... |
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Continuing Trends Projection
A regression-based projection of PCH bed equivalents that assumes that recent PCH use rates will continue a period of time into the future. In this study, trends in PCH use rates over the past 25 years were projected forward in time using regression formu... |
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Continuity Of Care (COC) (Ambulatory)
Continuity of Care (COC) measures the extent to which an indivudal patient sees a given provider over a specified period of time. In MCHP research, the focus of COC is on ambulatory visits to a provider. In Katz et al. (2004), they "def... |
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Continuity of Care Index (COCI)
The Continuity of Care Index (COCI) is an indicator that weighs both the frequency of ambulatory visits to primary care providers (which includes family physicians and nurse practitioners; mdbloc = 11, 200 respectively) and the dispersion of ambulatory v... |
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Continuously Registered
Individuals that have had healthcare coverage provided by Manitoba's universal healthcare program since birth. |
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Contraceptive Use
Method used to prevent a sexually active female from becoming pregnant. Examples include the use of condoms, birth control pills, diaphragms, spermicides, or birth control injection (Depovera). |
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Contraindications
Any circumstances (e.g. a disease) which render some particular line of treatment improper or undesirable. |
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Contrast Statement
See Generalized Linear Model (GLM) glossary term. |
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Control Charts
Control Charts are a visual statistical tool in Quality Control Analysis used to distinguish between normal and abnormal variation in a quality characteristic or indicator and to detect changes in indicators over time. |
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Control Group
A control group is a group of subjects that are used for comparison with treatment groups - subjects receiving a treatment - in randomized control trials and other epidemiological study designs. Selection of an appropriate control group is crucial to the ... |
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Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation
Use of medications to stimulate the ovaries to release multiple eggs. |
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Controller Medication Use
See Asthma Care: Controller Medication Use glossary term. |
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