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Disability
Any restriction or lack of ability (resulting from an impairment) to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being (World Health Organization, 1980). The impairment may be physical, sensory or mental and may be ... |
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Disability Among Youth
A set of disabling medical conditions derived from the World Health Organization, which, when diagnosed in youths 0-24 years of age, disadvantaged since birth and not treated with modern techniques, frequently result in early death. The list includes: cer... |
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Disability Status
Classified into four categories in Manitoba Family Services income assistance records: mental health, mental retardation, physical disability, and other disability. |
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Discharge
See Separation(s). |
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Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
A data file maintained by Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) containing information about almost every case that is discharged from an acute care hospital in Canada. CIHI uses these data to assign individual cases to case mix groups (CMGs |
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Discharge Abstracts
See Hospital Abstracts Data. |
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Discharge Diagnosis
The first diagnosis, considered the most important reason contributing to the hospital stay. |
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Discharge Efficiency
A key hospital performance indicator that reflects the degree to which hospitals meet general targets for the timely discharge of patients. This measure takes into account the types of patients treated (e.g. age, gender, Treaty Status) and length of stay ... |
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Discharge Outcomes
An event used to describe the outcome of hospital discharge (see Separation(s)), including: 1). discharge home; 2). discharge to nursing home (see Personal Care Home (PCH)); 3). died in hospital; or 4). transfer to other institution (acute or chronic care... |
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Discharge Screens
An InterQual criteria that prevents the patient from being discharged from an acute care setting before they are clinically stable. |
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Discrete Medical Condition
The definition for Extended Disease Cluster (EDC) in the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) classification system was applied to group diagnosis codes that represented discrete clinical conditions or problems, for example hypertension, ... |
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Discretionary Care
See Discretionary Nature of Services. |
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Discretionary Diagnosis
Classification of all three-digit ICD codes into one of 3 categories (low, medium, or high), based on the extent to which there was room for physician discretion in the decision to hospitalize. |
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Discretionary Nature of Services
Recognition that some services are discretionary in nature, and as such, cause variation among rates of admission to hospital in different regions. Three categories for inpatient hospital care are defined: high variation medical conditions, surgical condi... |
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Discretionary Procedures
"Those that may nor be necessary at all, those for which there is no general agreement about indications (e.g. hysterectomy for non-malignant conditions of the uterus), and those for which alternative, non-surgical treatment options are available (e.g. va... |
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Disparity Rate Difference (DRD)
Disparity Rate Difference (DRD) is one measure of a socioeconomic gap, subtracting the rate of the lowest neighbourhood income group from the rate of the highest neighbourhood income group (i.e., R1 minus R5 or U1 minus U5). This is sometimes referred to ... |
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Disparity Rate Ratio (DRR)
Disparity Rate Ratio (DRR) is one measure of a socioeconomic gap, dividing the rate of the lowest neighbourhood income group by the rate of the highest neighbourhood income group (i.e., R1/R5 or U1/U5). This is sometimes referred to in the text as the "ra... |
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Dispensed Medications
The act of providing a patient with a supply of medications, usually by a pharmacist. To be differentiated from medications that are prescribed by physicians. Drug information available at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) assesses medications... |
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Dispensing Fees
The total fees charged on a per prescription basis by pharmacists for prescriptions dispensed. |
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Disposition Status
The status of the patient recorded at the conclusion of an Emergency Department (ED) or Urgent Care (UC) facility visit. Disposition status options included in this report are: discharged home, expired, admitted to an inpatient bed, ... |
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