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Location of Ambulatory Visits
The location of where an ambulatory physician visit took place, based on the location of the physician. There are four categories: In District, Out of District: In Region, Out of Region: Not Winnipeg, and Out of Region: Winnipe... |
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Location of Care (Received)
The location of an ambulatory physician visit or hospitalization is based on the location of the physician or hospital. Several different methods of categorization have been used in MCHP research over the years, including:In Region, Out of Re... |
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Location of Death
Location of death was determined using a hierarchical approach in order to create five mutually exclusive categories:If individuals were in a hospital on the date of death they were classified as having died in hospital; if they were in a LT... |
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Location of Hospital
See Hospital Location. |
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Location of Hospitalization
In Martens et al. (2003), the location of hospitalization was calculated two different ways. First, the location of hospitals' patients, based on their residence information (that is, where RHAs' hospital patients came from). Second, the hospitalization... |
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Location of Personal Care Homes (PCH)
See Personal Care Home (PCH) Location. |
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Location of Residence
See Manitoba Residents. |
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Location of Residence (Postal Code) Agreement
This statistical method investigates the level of agreement between the patient's postal code provided in the Manitoba Cancer Registry data compared to the patient's postal code reported in the Manitoba Health Insurance Registry and in the Hospital Abstra... |
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Location of Residence Six Months Before Death
We determined location of residence of decedents 180 days (6 months) before the date of death using a hierarchical approach analogous to the one for determining location of death. We differentiated between individuals who were in hospital, LTC facilities,... |
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Location of Visits to Physicians / Primary Care Providers
This indicators provides information regarding where Regional Health Authority (RHA) residents went for ambulatory visits to physicians / primary care providers using the following categories: percent of visits in patient's RHA district, ... |
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Location of Visits to Specialists
Information regarding where Regional Health Authority (RHA) residents went for ambulatory visits to specialists by the following categories: percent of visits in patient's RHA district, percent of visits elsewhere in patient's RHA, p... |
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Log Transformation
See Transformation (Logarithmic) |
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Log-normal Distribution
This is the probability distribution of any random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed. Thus, if Y is a random variable with a normal distribution, then exp(Y) has a log normal distribution. This distribution can be used to model nonzero posi... |
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Logarithmic Transformation
This is the replacing of data values with the equivalent values in logarithm form. This type of transformation can make skewed data to be approximately normal. |
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Logistic Modeling
See Logistic Regression. |
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Logistic Regression
Logistic regression is regression technique used when the outcome is a binary, or dichotomous, variable. Logistic regression models the probability of an event as a function of other factors. These models are only able to state that there is a relationshi... |
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Lognormal Distribution
A continuous probability distribution of any random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed. For example, if X is a random variable with a normal distribution, then Y= exp (X) is log-normally distributed. The probability density function of a log... |
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Long Stay (Care)
A term used to describe the period of length of stay of hospital inpatients. The definition of long stay has varied in the research conducted at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP): Roos et al. (1994) defined lon... |
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Long Stay Days
The total number of days of hospital care used by all residents of a given region of stays 30 days or longer within a given fiscal year ( Martens et al., 2004 ). Recent Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) research by Fransoo et al. (2... |
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Long Stay Inpatient Care
See Long Stay (Care) |
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