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Convalescence
Care provided to patients after surgery or serious illness that may not require hospital-level care but that does not allow the patient to return home safely. Convalescent care is provided to people who require specific medical and therapeutic services in... |
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Converted Procedure
A converted procedure refers to a cholecystectomy procedure where the planned method of surgery was laparoscopic, but during the procedure it became necessary to make a larger abdominal incision and revert to the open method of surgery. A conversion from ... |
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COPD
acronym for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) |
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Core Patients
Patients who are allocated to a health care provider because they received most of their care from that provider than from any other. These patients are considered occasional patients of any the other provider visited. In this study, core patients for phy... |
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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) / Surgery
Surgical procedure that reroutes blood around a blocked coronary artery using a healthy blood vessel from another part of the body, thereby improving oxygen and blood flow to the heart. CABG is defined using ICD-9-CM procedure codes 36.10, 36.11, 36.12, 3... |
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Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
see Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). |
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Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD), ischemic heart disease, or atherosclerotic heart disease, is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that supply the myocardium (t... |
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Corrections Offender Management System (COMS) Data
The Corrections Offender Management System (COMS) data from Manitoba Justice contains records of adult and youth individuals in the Manitoba Corrections system and tracks their associated data. This includes data on the offender, the start and end dates o... |
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Correlation Coefficient, r
An indicator of the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables. Its absolute value can range from 0 (no relationship) to 1 (a perfect relationship). The sign of the coefficient indicates the direction of the relationship. |
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Corticosteroids (inhaled)
Cortisone-like medicines are used to treat serious inflammatory conditions. In asthma, they address the underlying disease process, thus preventing its symptoms. These are identified by the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) drug classification code: R... |
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Cost
See Standard Cost. |
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Cost - Inpatient hospital care/day surgery
The cost assigned to each person that is discharged from hospital after having been admitted for an inpatient stay or day surgery. The cost is assigned using the Resource Intensity Weight (RIW™) attributed to each discharge by CIHI. This RIW is multipl... |
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Cost Driver
A component that significantly influences annual changes in pharmaceutical spending in a province (for example). Major components that annually drive up pharmaceutical costs include changes in the use of older and newer drugs, price changes of older and n... |
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Cost List
See Standard Cost List. |
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Cost of a Standard Hospital Stay (CSHS)
The Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) definition states "The Cost of a Standard Hospital Stay (CSHS) provides the average cost in your facility for a hypothetical patient with an RIW = 1. ... The cost of a standa... |
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Cost Per Weighted Case (CPWC or CWC)
A financial indicator that provides a measure of the cost to provide care to a "standard" hospital patient. It is a relative, average cost calculated by summing the weights assigned to all cases treated by a hospital, and dividing this number into the hos... |
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Costing
See Costing Methods. |
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Costing Hospital Care
The general activity of attempting to assess and compare the cost efficiency of different hospitals. One method uses available financial information on case mix adjusted charge data to determine Relative Case Weights (RCW). Another method uses the Managem... |
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Costing Methods
Methods used to estimate health care costs, such as micro-costing, average costing, or mixed costing. |
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Costs Of Care
The cost of providing hospital, physician, inpatient prenatal health, and Personal Care Home (PCH) care on a per capita basis in each region. |
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