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Diabetes Treatment Prevalence
The number of individuals with at least two physician visits or one hospitalization with a diabetes diagnosis (ICD-9-CM = 250; ICD-10-CA = E10 - E14) within a three-year period. Other research has defined this differently using medications and laborato... |
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Diagnosis
Identification of a patient's illness or disease, often coded using a standardized classification system, such as ICD-9-CM or DSM-IV (for mental health disorders). For each patient discharged from hospital, there can be several diagnoses reported, includi... |
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Diagnosis Related Group (DRG™)
An American case-mix classification system that groups together patients who are similar clinically in terms of diagnosis and treatment, and in their consumption of hospital resources, thus allowing comparisons of resource use across hospitals with varyin... |
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Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG™) Weights
Defines the relative weight for each different DRG when determining resource consumption, in relation to an arbitrarily defined standard case. |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
This manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association, provides a standard classification of all mental health disorders to aid in their diagnosis and treatment. It consists of three major components: the diagnostic classification, the diagnostic... |
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Diagnostic Imaging (DI)
Describes the various modalities (such as x-rays, ultrasounds, MRIs, and angiograms) that are used to form the foundation of the diagnosis of many conditions. |
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Diagnostic Quality Indicators (QIs)
Diagnostic QIs were assessed by counting how frequently select ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes appeared in the administrative healthcare data during an ambulatory care physician visits and/or a hospital admission. The six Diagnostic QIs include: hip fractures, ... |
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Diagnostic Services Manitoba (DSM)
Diagnostic Services Manitoba (DSM) is the organization that used to provide public sector laboratory testing and diagnostic health care services to Manitobans. The services provided by Diagnostics Services Manitoba (DSM) are now provided by |
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Dialysis
A treatment for people in the end stage of chronic renal insufficiency (kidney failure). This treatment cleans the blood and removes wastes and excess water from the body. See the Renal Failure concept for more... |
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Dialysis Initiation
Dialysis initiation was identified and defined by the occurrence of one or more physician visits with one of several physician tariff codes related to dialysis treatment. See the Renal Failure concept for a list ... |
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Different Drugs / Medications
A "different" drug / medication is defined at the 4th level of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system to denote the chemical / therapeutic / pharmacological subgroup not the drug molecule. |
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Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis
The theory, posited by Jay Belsky, that "individuals vary in the degree they are affected by experiences or qualities of the environment they are exposed to. Some individuals are more susceptible to such influences than others - not only to negative but ... |
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Diffusion research
The study of the factors necessary for successful adoption and implementation by additional stakeholders and the targeted population of an evidence-based intervention that has been successfully implemented in some sites, resulting in widespread use. |
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DIN
acronym for Drug Identification Number (DIN) |
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Dino-Clusters
See Expanded DIagNOsis Clusters (EDC). |
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Diphtheria (D or d)
An acute, infectious disease often characterized by fever, sore throat, and difficulty breathing, which is caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae . |
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Direct Costs of Inpatient Care
Those costs that can be identified as being directly attributable to inpatient services. Examples would include nursing services, drugs and other medical supplies. Direct costs exclude those costs that are shared by all hospital users, for example, inform... |
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Direct Services
Services performed by home care staff in the client's home. |
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Direct Standardization of Rates
The specific rates in a study population are averaged, using as weights the distribution of a specified standard population. The directly standardized rate represents what the crude rate would have been in the study population if that population had the s... |
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Directly Managed Housing
Subsidized housing properties that are owned and managed by Manitoba Housing and Community Development (Manitoba Housing). |
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