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Case Control Studies
Studies in which individuals who already have a certain condition are compared with individuals who do not. They compare study subjects retrospectively. |
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Case Costs
see Cost Per Weighted Case (CPWC) . |
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Case Management
Assessment and care planning, service coordination (including community resources), supportive counselling to help persons and families cope with changes in health and ability to manage independently. |
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Case Mix
The large variation in patients and their medical conditions within any one hospital. Case mix becomes an issue when trying to compare the efficiency of various hospitals, but this can be overcome by using Resource Intensity Weights (RIW™) or Relative ... |
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Case Mix Adjustment
A process of assigning weights to different types of hospital cases. Those cases that require substantial resources would be assigned a weight higher than those that require relatively fewer resources. Case mix adjustment takes into account variability in... |
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Case Mix Groups (CMG™)
A Canadian patient classification system developed by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), based on most responsible diagnosis, used to group and describe types of inpatients discharged from acute care hospitals. Each patient case is init... |
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Case Mix Groups with Complexity Overlay (CMG Plx™)
A modification to the Case Mix Group (CMG)™ system made in 1997, to reflect case complexity (the effect of comorbidities and complications). Each case within a given CMG™ is assigned a level from 1 to 4, with 4 being the highest level of complexity.... |
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Case Payment
A hospital funding approach in which payment is made on a case by case basis. |
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Case Weight Development
A methodology to develop Relative Case Weights (RCW) for estimating the cost of different diseases. |
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Case Weights
A measure representing the relative resources consumed by different types of hospital cases. |
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Case-Complexity
Case-complexity is calculated for each hospital during the study period using a case-mix hospital costing methodology based on refined diagnostic-related groups (RDRGs®). In this methodology, clinically similar cases (i.e., cases that can be expected ... |
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Caseload Volume
The volume and distribution of a surgical procedure (e.g. tonsillectomy) by: 1). provider, 2). hospital, and 3). anaesthetic care related to the procedure. |
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Cataract
Cataracts occur when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy and normal vision is impaired. There are many causes of cataracts including (but not limited to) cortisone medication, trauma, diabetes, and aging. The symptoms of cataracts include double or blurred... |
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Cataract Surgery
Cataract surgery involves replacing the lens of the eye with an artificial lens. The clouded lens is removed in its entirety by surgery and replaced with an intraocular lens made of plastic, an operation that takes less than an hour and usually does not n... |
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Catchment: Where Patients Came From Prior to Admission to Personal Care Home (PCH)
This indicator defines the "catchment" area for PCH admissions, and includes the following general categories: a) residents who lived in the same RHA (home RHA); b) residents who lived in another RHA; and c) residents who lived in the Winnipeg RHA. It is... |
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Cause of Death
The reported cause of death on the Death Certificate (also known as the Medical Certificate of Death) from Vital Statistics. The Death Certificate used ICD-9 coding from 1979 until the end of 1999. As of January 1, 2000, ICD-10 coding is being used. In... |
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Cause-Specific Morbidity
Based on treatment prevalence data available from hospital and physician claims databases, and cancer incidence data, the cause-specific morbidity categories included: injury hospitalizations (falls, motor vehicle collisions, violence, other); diabetes tr... |
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Cause-Specific Mortality
Obtained from Vital Statistics, cause-specific mortality categories included: cancer, heart disease, injury, and respiratory disease. |
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Causes of Ambulatory Visits
This indicator measures the distribution or frequency of diagnoses attributed during ambulatory visits to a physician / primary care provider / specialist This indicator is based on the diagnosis code recorded and is grouped according to the |
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Causes of Child Mortality
Causes of death for children aged 1 to 19, categorized by the chapters of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes as reported on the Death Certificate (also known as the Medical Certificate of Death) from Vital Statistics. Usually only t... |
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