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Labour Force
Consists of persons who are employed or working in self-employment, are on temporary lay-off, are about to start a new job, or are actively looking for work. Employment is one determinant of health, that is, an underlying factor assumed to influence overa... |
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Landing Date
The date an individual receives their Permanent Residency (PR) status in Canada (previously ...
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Language and Cognitive Development - Early Development Instrument (EDI) Domain
A set of 26 items on the EDI to assess a kindergarten child's readiness for school in terms of their "basic literacy, interest in literacy/numeracy and uses memory, advanced literacy, basic numeracy" and other similar characteristics. |
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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
see Cholecystectomy. |
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Large-for-gestational-age (LGA)
Infants that are at or above the 90th percentile in birth weight, from an infant population of the same sex and gestational age. For more detailed information, see Kramer et al. (2001) in the concept titled Size for Gestational Age. |
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Late Initiation of Prenatal Care
Prenatal care that begins after the first trimester of pregnancy. |
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Late Preterm Birth
Birth where the gestational age of the infant is between 34 and 36 weeks. A further categorization of preterm birth. |
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Late-Loss Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
Dependence in activities of daily living typically follow a certain sequence; people first become dependent in early-loss ADLs (e.g., dressing, personal hygiene), followed by dependence in middle-loss (transfer, locomotion, toilet use), and, finally late-... |
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Latent Construct
A variable that cannot be measured directly but can be estimated by related variables (Ullman JB, 1996). |
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Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI)
Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) (or "sleeping TB") arises when an individual is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) but the bacterium is dormant and not transmissible (does not have active disease). Individuals with LTBI are more likely to ... |
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Length of Stay (LOS)
The number of days of care counted from the admission date to the separation (discharge) date for patients/residents within a healthcare facility. This could be in a hospital or personal care home (PCH). In some research (Fransoo et al., 2013), this incl... |
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Length of Stay (LOS) - Mean
See Average Length of Stay (ALOS). |
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Length of Stay Categories
There are 8 categories for grouping LOS: (1) 1-8 days, (2) 9-14 days, (3) 15-22 days, (4) 23-59 days, (5) 60-89 days, (6) 90-179 days, (7) 180-365 days, and (8) 365 days or more. |
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Length of Stay in PCH by Level of Care (LOC) on Admission
This indicator measures the minimum length of time (in years) that 50% of all PCH residents age 75 and older spent in PCHs before leaving the facility, according to their level of care on admission; i.e., half of PCH residents spent less than this amount ... |
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Length of Waiting Time (LWT) After Assessment
The difference between the admission date to a PCH and the date the person was paneled for acceptance to a PCH. An average LWT is reported using the median (midpoint). |
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Level II and III Funding
Special education funding provided by the Department of Education to students with special needs who require extensive supports in the classroom. In Brownell et al. (2012), the rate of level II and III funding was calculated per 1,000 children aged 5 to 1... |
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Level of Care (LOC) - In Hospital
Level of care is a classification for hospitalizations according to type of care received (Fransoo et al., 2013). In Manitoba, the level of care is collected in the Hospital Discharge Abstract data as a one-digit code, using the following codes and descri... |
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Level of Care (LOC) - In Personal Care Homes (PCH)
A classification system for PCH residents used to define the extent of their dependence, and to approximate the amount of daily nursing care they may require. All nursing home (PCH) residents are assessed at one of four levels of care based on the Depende... |
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Level of Care (LOC) - Long Term Care (LTC) Admissions
This term defines the different levels of care (LOC) available when analyzing Long Term Care (LTC) admissions data. It is important to define the type of care being examined based on what information the researcher wants to gain from analysis of the ad... |
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Level of Care (LOC) on Admission to Personal Care Homes (PCH)
The distribution of levels of care assigned to PCH residents who were age 75 and older at the time of their admission. Level 1 represents the lowest level of need and Level 4 represents the highest. Levels 2 and 3 were stratified into residents whose asse... |
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