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241.	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".
242.	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:
243.	Constitution Act The Constitution Act is a piece of federal Canadian legislation passed in 1982. This legis...
244.	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...
245.	Consult Rate See Consultations (Ambulatory).
246.	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...
247.	Consultation Visits (Physician) see Physician Consultation Visits.
248.	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...
249.	Consultative Care See Consultations.
250.	Consultive Care See Consultations.
251.	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...
252.	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.
253.	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...
254.	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...
255.	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...
256.	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...
257.	Continuously Registered Individuals that have had healthcare coverage provided by Manitoba's universal healthcare program since birth.
258.	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).
259.	Contraindications Any circumstances (e.g. a disease) which render some particular line of treatment improper or undesirable.
260.	Contrast Statement See Generalized Linear Model (GLM) glossary term.

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