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Ethno-Cultural Personal Care Home (PCH)
Although not a formal designation, this describes a PCH where the majority of persons living there profess a particular religious faith, or prefer to speak a language other than English. |
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Evaluation Claims
See Shadow Billing. |
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Ever-User
Any person identified with a diagnosis of mental health disorder. |
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Evidence-Based Medicine
"The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external cli... |
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Exact Binomial Statistics
A test of the statistical significance of deviations from a theoretically expected binomial distribution of observations into two or more categories. Unlike a chi-square goodness-of-fit test, exact tests are accurate even for data that have few observatio... |
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Excess Hospitalizations
See Excess Persons Hospitalized. |
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Excess Mortality / Death
If the SMR for a particular region is higher than the provincial SMR, then it is considered to be excessive. |
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Excess Persons Hospitalized
If the hospitalization rate for a particular region is higher than the provincial hospitalization rate, then it is considered to be excessive. |
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Excess Physician Visits
If the physician visit rate for a particular region is higher than the provincial physician visit rate, then it is considered to be excessive. |
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Excess Rates
One of the rates determined for Health Status Indicators that compares each region's performance with the province. If the region's rate is higher than the provincial average, it implies that if the region's rate were the same as the provincial rate, thes... |
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Exclusions
During research, certain types of data may not be used in the analysis, depending on the type of study being performed. These data are called exclusions. Examples include: records falling outside the time frame of the study, non-residents of Manitoba base... |
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Exempt
Students were exempted from writing a standards exam for reasons such as: substantial modifications had to be made to the exam in order for the student to write it, or the student was an English as a Second Language student. |
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Expanded DIagNOsis Clusters (EDCs or Dino-Clusters)
Part of the Johns Hopkins diagnosis grouping and case-mix tools, this classification tool categorizes ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes found in claims into 190 disease-specific clinical categories (EDCs or Dino-Clusters). These can then be used to identify person... |
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Expected Age in the Community
Expected median number of years for an older adult (age 65+) to live in a non-institutionalized setting in the community. Defined using Life Table method; based on cohort average mortality. |
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Expected Disease-free Community-Dwelling Years
Expected length of time for an older adult (age 65+) to live in a non-institutionalized setting and be free of any major chronic diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia (including Alzheimer's ... |
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Expected Length Of Stay (ELOS)
Over time, Expected Length Of Stay (ELOS) has been defined differently in MCHP research. In De Coster et al. (1993), Roos et al. (1994), Frohlich et al. (1994) and Brownell et al. (1996) ELOS is defined as: the length of time an individual ... |
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Expenditures for Pharmaceuticals
Rates per user or per resident of the amount paid by government agency and/or individual for the drug ingredient costs, professional (dispensing) fee, and total prescription costs. |
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Expenditures Per Ambulatory Physician Visit
The average fee paid by Manitoba Health for the ambulatory services rendered to residents of a given region. It represents only the physician fee for the visit, and does not include fees paid for any ancillary services associated with the visit, such as f... |
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Exposure to Smoke Inside the Home - (CCHS Survey Data)
Second-hand smoke is the smoke from a burning cigarette, pipe or cigar, or the smoke exhaled by a smoker. When you are nearby someone who is smoking, for example, inside the same enclosed space (home or car), you may breathe in second-hand smoke. Accordin... |
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External Cause of Injury Codes
External cause of injury codes are used to define environmental events, circumstances and conditions such as the cause of injury, poisoning, and other adverse effects related to injury hospitalizations and mortality. Excluded from this list and from our d... |
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