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1.	IADL acronym for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
2.	Iatrogenic Pneumothorax Iatrogenic pneumothorax refers to a punctured lung. A puncture of the lung can occur during procedures such as insertions of intercostal catheters and drains, thoracentesis, central line insertion and intubation for mechanical ventilation.
3.	IBD acronym for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
4.	ICD acronym for International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
5.	ICD Conversion Files As data support files, the ICD Conversion Files provide a crosswalk for matching ICD-10-CA diagnosis codes and Canadian Classification of Health Interventions (CCI) codes with corresponding ICD-9-CM codes. These files are useful for studies covering a ti...
6.	ICD-10 acronym for International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10)
7.	ICD-10-CA acronym for International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision with Canadian Enhancements (ICD-10-CA).
8.	ICD-9 acronym for International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9)
9.	ICD-9-CM acronym for International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision with Clinical Modifications (ICD-9-CM).
10.	ICDA-8 acronym for International Classification of Diseases - Adapted, 8th Revision (ICDA-8)
11.	ICES acronym for Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
12.	ICU acronym for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
13.	ICU Days acronym for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Days
14.	Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) A bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot properly due to platelets being destroyed by the immune system.
15.	IHD acronym for Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD)
16.	Illicit Drug Use The use of substances that are considered illegal and punishable within the criminal code. In Heaman et al. (2012), illicit drug use was derived from the Families First Screen and is self-reported by the mother as being any illicit drug used during her pr...
17.	Illness / Cognitive Impairment Patients were classified into a major diagnostic group depending on the most responsible diagnosis, that is, the one that contributed the most to the patients stay in hospital. Diagnostic groups are organized by body systems, for example, musculoskeletal,...
18.	Immigration Admission Category This is the categorization of immigrants by the Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada...
19.	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Permanent Resident Database The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Permanent Resident Database contain...
20.	Immunity The ability to avoid infection or disease by having sufficient biological defenses.
21.	Immunization An intervention to initiate or increase resistance against infectious disease. The recommended immunization schedule for children changes over time. See terms Childhood Immunizations and Immunization Schedule By Age for more detailed in...
22.	Immunization Coverage The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that each individual receives all vaccinations to complete the appropriate schedule for their current age. Completing the Manitoba Childhood Immunization Schedule is voluntary, but is important as it helps to ...
23.	Immunization Data / Manitoba Immunization Monitoring System (MIMS) Data The Immunization / Manitoba Immunization Monitoring System (MIMS) data contains information on immunization histories (e.g.: vaccines received, dates) of Manitoba Health registrants. For more information on Immunization/MIMS data, see the:
24.	Immunization Monitoring Program ACTive (IMPACT) "A paediatric hospital-based national active surveillance network for adverse events in children following immunization, vaccine failures, and selected infectious diseases that are, or are soon to be, vaccine preventable. IMPACT is administered by the Can...
25.	Immunization Rate See Childhood Immunization Rate.
26.	Immunization Schedule Timetable of recommended times to receive immunizations. In Manitoba, this schedule is based on current provincial immunization programs and policies and reflects the most common immunization scenarios.
27.	Immunization Schedule By Age The recommended immunization schedule for children or adults is dependent on age and previous immunization history. Please see the Communicable Disease Control - Routine Immunization Sch...
28.	Immunizations for Influenza (Adult) The proportion of residents age 65 or older who received immunization for influenza ('the flu') in a fiscal year. Annual 'flu shots' are recommended for all seniors 65+, along with other target groups (see the term
29.	Immunizations for Pneumonia / Pneumococcal Immunization This indicator measures the proportion of residents age 65 or older who received a pneumococcal immunization / vaccination for pneumonia. For most seniors, a pneumococcal immunization is considered a 'once in a lifetime' event, so these rates show the 'cu...
30.	Immunodeficiency A state in which the body's immune system is inadequate.
31.	Implementation research The study of how a specific set of activities and designed strategies effect the integration of evidence-based information and interventions into health care and community health practices.
32.	In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) "Procedure during which oocytes are removed from the ovary, mixed with spermatozoa, fertilized and incubated in a glass petri dish; then up to four viable embryos are placed in the woman's uterus." (Olds SB et al., 2004).
33.	In-Area Supply Of Physicians A measure of physician availability indicating the number (or full-time equivalent number) of physicians living in a Physician Service Area (PSA) per 1000 residents.
34.	In-Hospital Mortality This is an indicator of a patient who died while admitted to a hospital. This can be identified from the separation / discharge disposition coded in the hospital abstracts data. The scope usually includes all hospitals in Manitoba and out-of-province ho...
35.	In-Hospital Mortality Rates This is the adjusted rate of deaths for patients who died while admitted to hospital.
36.	In-Hospital Pharmaceuticals – CENTRICITY data The In-Hospital Pharmaceuticals – CENTRICITY data contains person, encounter, order and dispensing information on pharmaceutical use at five Winnipeg hospitals: St. Boniface Hospital, Victoria General Hospital, Grace Hospital, Seven Oaks General Hospita...
37.	In-Hospital Pharmaceuticals – CERNER Data The In-Hospital Pharmaceuticals – CERNER data contains person, encounter, order and dispensing information on pharmaceutical use at three Winnipeg hospitals: Health Sciences Centre, Concordia Hospital and Riverview Health Centre. For more informatio...
38.	In-year Length Of Stay (LOS) The length of hospital stay in days, within a fiscal year. See the In-Year Hospital Days - How to Calculate concept for more information.
39.	Inactive Repository Data The term "Inactive Repository Data" refers to data that is rarely used and either has not been updated since initial acquisition, or may not be updated on a regular basis. These databases were originally acquired and placed in the
40.	Inadequate Prenatal Care The average annual maternal age-adjusted percent of singleton live births whose mothers received inadequate or no prenatal care was calculated for two five-year time periods: 2007/08–2011/12 and 2012/13–2016/17, for comparison. Mothers with no or inad...
41.	Inappropriate Admissions Patients admitted into an acute care hospital that did not need acute care under the InterQual criteria.
42.	Incidence / Incidence Rate Incidence is the number of new cases of a specific disease/condition/event over a specified time period. The incidence rate counts new cases in the numerator; individuals with a history of the disease/condition/event are not included. The denominator f...
43.	Incident A new case (e.g., first diagnosis) of a specific disease, condition, or event within a specified time period. Incidence can be used to determine causality of diseases and to define and compare disease-specific cohorts.
44.	Income The amount of money earned through employment. Census data provided by Statistics Canada includes income related data on Household Income and Census Family Income.
45.	Income Adequacy Quintiles Respondents to the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) are assigned to one of five income categories on the basis of self-reported household income and number of persons living in the household.
46.	Income Assistance (IA) Income assistance is a program of financial assistance for people who need help to meet basic personal and family needs. As such, it is a measure of poverty. IA involves monetary support allocated by the provincial government to individuals and/or their ...
47.	Income Quartiles A method to measure the average (mean) household income of residents, ranking them from poorest to wealthiest, and then grouping them into 4 income quartiles (1 being poorest and 4 being wealthiest), each quartile containing approximately 25% of the popul...
48.	Income Quintiles / Income Quintile A grouping of the population by average household income. Income quintiles are first divided into two population categories: urban (Winnipeg and Brandon) and rural (all other Manitoba areas), and then into five groups (quintiles) within each population ca...
49.	Income Unknown (Income Not Found (NF)) A group of individuals who cannot be assigned a neighbourhood income from census data, and are therefore excluded from all neighbourhood income quintile analyses. Individuals included in the "Income Unknown" group include: residents of long-te...
50.	Incompetent Cervix "The premature dilation of the cervix, usually in the second trimester of pregnancy." (Olds SB et al., 2004).
51.	Incomplete For students who wrote a standards exam, an outcome of "incomplete" was assigned when a mark was not able to be assigned to the exam (usually because the student only wrote a portion of the exam and was absent for the remainder).
52.	Independent Schools This group of schools includes homeschooling, funded and non-funded schools that may be affiliated with a specific religious or denominational group. Independent schools have their own governing bodies or boards, and their operation varies. "Independent ...
53.	Index Date (Drugs) Usually assigned to the start of the "new use" of a prescription drug as registered on the Drug Program Information Network (DPIN).
54.	Index Event An event such as admission or readmission to hospital, surgery, or separation (discharge) from hospital where the date is available.
55.	Indian A term used to describe one of three distinct groups of people recognized as Aboriginal in the Constitution Act (1982), the others being Inuit and Métis. In addition, there are three legal definitions that apply to Indians in Canada: Status India...
56.	Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) INAC was a federal government department that has been dissolved and replaced by two new departments – Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC). Please see the CIRNAC definition for information...
57.	Indicators of Access to Hospital Services See Access to Hospital Services.
58.	Indicators of Differential Utilization Examine differences in the way hospital care is utilized across regions in Manitoba determined by utilization rates for age, sex, patient comorbidity, level of comorbidity, location of care, level of care, length of stay, type of care, and intensity of re...
59.	Indicators of Need Measures that assist in identifying the relative need for medical care across regions in Manitoba, such as: SMR, premature mortality, and SERI.
60.	Indicators of Quality Primary Care / Primary Care Quality Indicators These are quantifiable measures of physician services / behavior that can be used investigate the quality of care by family physicians. Research into the development and investigation of primary care quality indicators began in 2004 and has evolved ove...
61.	Indigenous Peoples / Indigenous Peoples in Canada Also known as "Aboriginal peoples". This term refers to peoples belonging to one of three groups of Aboriginal peoples whose rights are recognized and affirmed in the Canadian constitution - First Nation, Metis, and Inuit (Indigenous and Northern Aff
62.	Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) A federal government department (formerly part of the now-dissolved Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)) that is responsible for working "collaboratively with partners to improve access to high quality services for First Nations, Inuit and MÃ©tis�...
63.	Indirect Services Services performed by the home care staff related to a client but not in the client's house (e.g. related telephone calls, consultations. etc).
64.	Indirect Standardization of Rates This is used to compare study populations for which the specific rates are either statistically unstable or unknown. The specific rates in the standard population are averaged, using as weights the distribution of the study population. The ratio of the cr...
65.	Induced Abortion A pregnancy that is intentionally terminated early, using either a surgical procedure or medication. In Heaman et al. (2012), an induced abortion was determined by the ICD-9-CM codes of 635 or 636 or the ICD-10-CA codes of O04 or O05.
66.	Induction of Labour Labour Induction is the act of stimulating labour contractions to begin the birthing process, through either physical or medical means. Physical methods of induction include the artificial rupture of the membranes to break the water. Medical methods inclu...
67.	Infant Illness/Trauma If the ICD-9-CM code in any one of the 16 diagnostic codes was one of 760-779 (see concept for ICD-9-CM code descriptions), the record was identified as an infant illness/trauma originating in the perinatal period.
68.	Infant Mortality An indicator of death among infants within one year of birth. This may include or exclude fragile infants, who are more likely to die. Infant mortality is seen as an indicator of health status, level of ...
69.	Infant Mortality Rate The number of deaths among infants under one year of age per 1000 live births in a cohort of live born babies. Rates fluctuate in areas with small populations, therefore several years' averages should be chosen over a single year of data. The rate is usua...
70.	Infectious Disease A group of illnesses that include pneumonia, influenza, hepatitis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), pelvic inflammatory disease, and AIDS.
71.	Infectious Disease Indicators A set of Hospitalization Indicators for describing rates associated with different types of infectious diseases, including: pneumonia, influenza, hepatitis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), pelvic inflammatory disease, and HIV/AIDS. Th...
72.	Inferential Analysis Inferential statistics allow one to draw conclusions or inferences from data. Usually this means coming to conclusions about a population on the basis of data describing a sample. Statistical inference uses probability and information about a sample to dr...
73.	Infertility Treatment Medical treatment for women who have difficulty becoming pregnant. Infertility medications are used for ovulation induction or controlled ovarian hyperstimulation, while assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) are mor...
74.	Infertility Treatment Prevalence The percentage of residents age 15 to 55 receiving at least one diagnosis of Infertility (ICD-9-CM code 606 for males, 628 for females) during ambulatory visits to physicians over a five year period. It is expressed as a percentage because each resident i...
75.	Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) A group of disorders characterized by inflammation of intestines (i.e., the intestines become red and swollen). The most common inflammatory bowel diseases are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn's disease is a chronic autoimmune disease that c...
76.	Influenza Commonly referred to as the flu, it is an infectious respiratory disease. Caused by influenza A and B viruses; it spreads from person to person via virus-laden respiratory secretions. It is an important cause of morbidity and death.
77.	Influenza Surveillance Purpose is to collect, analyze, and disseminate information on influenza activity; this should help assess, prevent and control morbidity and mortality associated with influenza and complications arising from it. It typically involves GPs who act as sen...
78.	Influenza Vaccinations / Influenza Immunization Influenza vaccinations are the most effective preventive measure to prevent influenza and the complications arising from it in high-risk populations, such as seniors. The Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunization (1999) recommends influenza vac...
79.	Influenza-Associated Illnesses Defined in terms of the following respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia and influenza (ICD-9-CM codes 480-487), acute respiratory diseases (ICD-9-CM codes 460-466) and chronic lung disease (ICD-9-CM codes 490-496), as coded in the Most Responsible Di...
80.	Influenza-Like Illness Pneumonia and influenza (ICD-9-CM codes 480 - 487), acute respiratory diseases (codes 460 - 466) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and allied conditions (codes 490 - 496).
81.	Ingredient Cost The total amount paid for ingredients in the prescription dispensed.
82.	Injury Categories (External Causes, ICD-9-CM) These are the major categories of the ICD-9-CM external cause of injury codes: Motor Vehicle Accidents Other Vehicle Accidents Poisoning Accidental Falls Accidents Caused by Fire and Flames Accidents Due to Natural and Enviro...
83.	Injury Causes (Hospitalization and Death) See the External Cause of Injury Codes and Categories concept for more information.
84.	Injury Hospitalization Causes These are the most frequent causes of hospitalization due to injury for Manitobans. Causes of injury were identified from the hospital abstract and grouped into injury categories according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system. Cau...
85.	Injury Hospitalization Rate See the Hospitalization Rates for Injuries glossary term.
86.	Injury Hospitalizations Hospitalizations lasting one day or longer that resulted from an injury as indicated by the presence of one of the ICD-9-CM E-Codes in any of the 16 diagnosis variables (PRIOR TO 2004-05 hospital data) OR any ICD-10-CA code beginning with V, W, X, or Y in...
87.	Injury Indicators A set of Mortality and Hospitalization Indicators for describing rates associated with different types of injuries, including: motor vehicle, falls, vehicular non-traffic, drowning, poisoning, fire and flames, suicide, homicide, and other injuries. There...
88.	Injury Mortality Death due to injury, as defined by the presence of one of the ICD-9 E-Codes or ICD-10 V, W, X, Y-Codes as the cause of death from the Vital Statistics Mortality Registry Data, except those for misadventure...
89.	Injury Mortality Causes The distribution of causes of injury deaths by major categories in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system, based on death data from the Vital Statistics Mortality Registry Data. See the ...
90.	Injury Mortality Rates The Injury Mortality Rate is the age- and sex-adjusted annual rate of mortality due to injury, usually expressed per 1000 residents. These rates are calculated by dividing the total number of deaths due to injury in a given year(s) by the population as o...
91.	Injury Resulting in Hospitalization or Death Counts of hospitalizations or death due to injury include any inpatient hospitalization with an injury diagnosis or any death with an injury cause of death. Injuries were defined by ICD-9 E-codes in the cause of death field from death records from Vital S...
92.	Inpatient Someone who is admitted and discharged from hospital with a Length of Stay (LOS) of 1 or more days.
93.	Inpatient Census The count of the number of patients in hospital on a given day. It is calculated based on admissions and separations data by counting the number of patients that had an admission date before or on a chosen date and a separation date later than that date.
94.	Inpatient Hospital Care All admissions / contacts / separations in which patients had hospital stays of one or more days. It has been further classified into short stay inpatient care and long stay inpatient care.
95.	Inpatient Hospital Days Used The number of days spent in "inpatient" care in hospitals. This is distinct from the inpatient hospitalization rate because hospitalizations vary significantly in their length of stay. Multiple admissions of the same person are counted as separate events,...
96.	Inpatient Hospital Separation See Separation(s) glossary term.
97.	Inpatient Hospital Stay An in-patient hospital stay refers to any hospital admission in which the patient stays in hospital for one or more days.
98.	Inpatient Hospitalization / Inpatient Hospitalizations / Hospitalizations A hospitalization is simply defined as a single, continuous stay in the hospital system, irrespective of transfers between hospitals. These are hospitalizations during which patients are formally admitted to the hospital for diagnostic, medical, or surgic...
99.	Inpatient Proxy A method of calculating outpatient dollars for each hospital based on inpatient discharges from the hospital. For example, if a population in a RHA had 60% of a given hospital's inpatient cases, that RHA was allocated 60% of the hospital's outpatient cos...
100.	INR acronym for International Normalized Ratio (INR)
101.	Insight Mentoring Program (IFASD) Data The InSight Mentoring Program (IFASD) is a Healthy Child Manitoba (HCM) program aimed at decreasing the number of children born with FASD. The program is for women who are aged 18 years or older, have substance use problems, are pregnant (or have recently...
102.	Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) A non-profit research organization dedicated to conducting research that contributes to the effectiveness, quality, and efficiency of health care in the province of Ontario.
103.	Institutional Long Term Care Chronic and rehabilitative care provided through long term care institutions, such as Deer Lodge Hospital, Riverview Health Centre, Cartwright Hospital, and Hartney Hospital.
104.	Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) These are activities that enable people to live independently in the community and have been used as indicators of home care needs. These include meal preparation, general housekeeping, ability to handle finances, social life, grocery shopping, heavy do...
105.	Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Difficulty Scale A scale produced by the RAI-HC© system to measure the amount of difficulty home care clients have when performing three IADL tasks - meal preparation, ordinary housework and telephone use. This scale ranges from 0 (no difficulties in any three tasks)...
106.	Instrumental Variable An instrumental variable (IV) is used to control for confounding and measurement error in an observational study. An IV allows for the possibility of making causal inferences with observational data. There are two main criteria for defining an IV: (i) It ...
107.	Intended Destination The Canadian jurisdiction indicated on an IRCC immigration application as the intended dest...
108.	Intensity of (Pharmaceutical) Use One of two common indicators of pharmaceutical use. Intensity can be measured in one of four ways: 1) Defined Daily Dose, 2) Prescribed Daily Dose, 3) Number of Prescriptions Dispensed, 4) Number of Drugs Dispensed.
109.	Intensity of Cases Treated An indicator of hospital performance that combines three characteristics of the care delivered: 1). percentage of inpatient cases that involve delivery or a surgical procedure, 2). percentage of inpatient cases that have a length of stay greater than on...
110.	Intensity of Home Care Use measures of the amount of home care services provided to a client, such as number of service days, hours of service (units), and hours per service day.
111.	Intensity of Practice Intensity is a construct that reflects the amount of care provided to the patients in a practice. A high intensity practice is one where patients receive more visits and/or services than would be provided in a low intensity practice. Expenditure to the h...
112.	Intensity of Resource Use (IRU) An indicator of the differential utilization of hospital resources, this refers to the degree to which hospitals use labor and materials. There are 2 methods to measure IRU. Method 1 is based on DRG weights and categorizes hospital intensity of resource...
113.	Intensity Of Service An InterQual criteria that includes diagnostic and therapeutic services generally requiring a hospital level of care. They are grouped by physical evaluation, monitoring, and treatments / medications.
114.	Intensive Care Unit (ICU) A hospital unit which specifically provides medical care to seriously ill patients.
115.	Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Days The number of days stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
116.	Intensive Prenatal Care See Revised-Graduated Prenatal Care Utilization Index (R-GINDEX) glossary term.
117.	Intensivist A physician who specializes in the care of critically ill patients, usually in an intensive care unit (ICU).
118.	Intention-to-Treat Analysis A method of analyzing the effect of a treatment performed in randomized control trial studies. This method considers all participants who meet the inclusion criteria and are assigned to the control and treatment groups, regardless of whether participants ...
119.	Inter-Provincial Per Diem The rate of reimbursement per day that a province is willing to pay another province for a specific service.
120.	Inter-Quartile Range (IQR) The range between the 25th and the 75th percentiles; it shows the middle 50% of the data.
121.	Interaction Effect "The joint effect of two or more independent variables on a dependent variable. Interaction effects occur when independent variables not only have separate effects but also have combined effects on a dependent variable. Put somewhat differently, interacti...
122.	Interaction Term see Interaction Effect.
123.	Interim Housing Housing built to offer transitional, integrated accommodations to younger disabled individuals.
124.	Intermediate Care Unit A hospital unit designed for patients who are too ill to be cared for on regular wards, but do not require the highly specialized services that can only be provided in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Sometimes referred to as a step-down unit.
125.	Intermediate ICU (IICU) In Manitoba, this refers to a specialized type of Intermediate Care Unit, a six-bed hospital unit at the Health Sciences Centre that is primarily for patients who are stable except that they require prolonged mechanical ventilation.
126.	Intermediate Rural Hospital A general category within hospital types that identifies hospitals located in intermediate-sized rural centres. In Fransoo et al. (2013) this included 15 hospitals: Altona Community Memorial Health Centre, Beausejour District Hospital, Carman Memorial Hos...
127.	Internal Validity The strength of the relationship of data in one field to the data of another field. It is measured by internal consistency (numeric agreement between fields or the logical relationships between fields), temporal consistency (stability of data fields acros...
128.	International Classification of Diseases (ICD) A classification system of diseases, health conditions and procedures developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which represents the international standard for the labeling and numeric coding of diseases and health related problems. Within this sy...
129.	International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Chapters The International Classification of Disease (ICD) coding system divides diseases and health conditions into similar categories based on body systems and health conditions. These categories are represented by different chapters in the ICD documentation. Fo...
130.	International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) The 10th version of the ICD (International Classification of Disease) coding system, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that is used to classify diseases and related health problems. As of January 1, 2000, ICD-10 is being used by Vital Stat...
131.	International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, with Canadian Enhancements (ICD-10-CA) ICD-10-CA is based on the 10th version of the ICD (International Classification of Disease) coding system, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that is used to classify diseases and related health problems (morbidity), but includes enhancement...
132.	International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) The 9th version of the ICD (International Classification of Disease) coding system, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that is used to classify diseases, health conditions and procedures. This version was used by Vital Statistics to code th...
133.	International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, with Clinical Modifications (ICD-9-CM) The 9th version of the ICD (International Classification of Disease) coding system (with Clinical Modifications), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that is used to classify diseases, health conditions and procedures. This version was used ...
134.	International Classification of Diseases, Adapted - 8th Revision (ICDA-8) The 8th version of the International Classification of Diseases coding system (ICD-8), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that is used to classify diseases, health conditions and procedures. ICDA was adapted for use in the United States of A...
135.	International migration A change of residence involving the spatial movement of persons across country borders. The c...
136.	International Normalized Ratio (INR) A system established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee on Thrombosis and Hemostasis for reporting the results of blood clotting tests.
137.	Internists "A specialist in diseases of the internal organs" (Miller BF and Brackman KC, 1972).
138.	Interpersonal Care One of two key processes of care, it "describes the interaction of health care professionals and users or their carers". The other key process is technical care.
139.	Interpregnancy Interval (IPI) Also known as birth spacing. IPI is the time between the last delivery and conception of the current pregnancy. In Heaman et al. (2012), a short IPI was considered to be less than 12 months between pregnancies.
140.	Interpretability This term is used in the MCHP Data Quality Framework. The extent to which a dataset may be understood. This is measured by the availability and quality of metadata, including documentation, policies and procedures relevant to the creation and maintenance ...
141.	Interprovincial Migration This refers to the movement of individuals between provinces or states within a country, with the intention of settling permanently...
142.	InterQual Criteria A set of measurable, clinical indicators, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic services reflecting the need for hospitalization. Rather than being based on diagnosis, they consider the level of illness of the patient and the services required; thus the...
143.	Intervention Group The group of participants receiving treatment in randomized control trials and other epidemiological study designs. In Chateau et al. (2015), "treatment" consisted of an educational mailing package that physicians in the intervention group received whe...
144.	Intra-Urban Areas A method of dividing the city of Winnipeg into three areas (inner core, outer core and suburb) based on distinct physical and social characteristics (housing age, population density and household income) from 2001 census data.
145.	Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) The intraclass (sometimes called intracluster) correlation coefficient (ICC) tells us how similar elements in the same cluster (group) are. It provides a measure of homogeneity within the clusters (Lohr, Sharon L. (1999)). It ranges from 0 to 1 with value...
146.	Intrapartum "The time from the onset of true labor until the birth of the infant and expulsion of the placenta." (Olds SB et al., 2004).
147.	Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) "The occurrence of poor fetal growth which may happen through a number of mechanisms" (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2008, page 130). IUGR is different than Small-for-Gestational-Age (SGA) as SGA refers to size after a baby is born. For more informat...
148.	Inuit A term used to describe one of three distinct groups of people recognized as Indigenous in the Constitution Act (1982), the others being First Nation and Métis. The Inuit reside all over Canada, but their original communities are located across Inuit Nun...
149.	Invasive Cancer The National Cancer Institute (NCI) defines Invasive Cancer as "Cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues. Also called infiltrating cancer." Source:
150.	Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting (IPTW) Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting (IPTW) is a statistical method used to create groups that are otherwise similar when examining the effect of a treatment or exposure. In contrast to matching treated and untreated individuals on a select group of ...
151.	Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common problem that affects the large intestine and causes abdominal cramping, bloating and a change in bowel habits. See MedlinePlus® - Health Topi...
152.	IRU acronym for Intensity of Resource Use (IRU)
153.	Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Ischemia (is-KE'me-ah) is a condition in which the blood flow (and thus oxygen) is restricted to a part of the body. Cardiac ischemia is the name for lack of blood flow and oxygen to the heart muscle. Thus, the term 'ischemic heart disease' refers to hear...
154.	Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Incidence The average number of new cases of IHD among residents age 19 and older per 100 person-years at risk. Incidence was calculated over a five-year time period and is age- and sex-adjusted to the Manitoba population age 19 and older. Please see the
155.	Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Mortality This is an indicator measuring the crude and adjusted mortality rates for residents age 19 and older with and without IHD. Individuals were categorized as with or without IHD in a five-fiscal-year period and their mortality rate was calculated in the sub...
156.	Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Prevalence / Treatment Prevalence The proportion of residents age 19+ diagnosed with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD), defined by a combination of data in physician visits, hospitalizations, and prescription drugs, from two years of data. Values are adjusted to reflect the population of Mani...

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