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Long Term Care (LTC)
Chronic and rehabilitative services provided by a long term care hospital or Personal Care Home (PCH). |
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Long Term Care (LTC) Data
The Long Term Care (LTC) data is administrative health data containing records of admission and discharge, assessments, level of care and chronic and rehabilitative services provided in Manitoba at long term care hospitals and personal care homes (includi... |
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Long Term Care (LTC) Hospitals
Includes Deer Lodge Hospital LTC, Riverview Health Centre, and Cartwright and Hartney Hospitals. |
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Long Term Care (LTC) MDS Assessment Data
Long Term Care MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment data contains screening, clinical and functional status elements, as well as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) assessments of all residents of Winnipeg personal care homes (PCHs). For more information on... |
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Long Term Care (LTC) Utilization History Data
Long Term Care (LTC) Utilization History data is maintained by Manitoba Health and includes records of chronic and rehabilitative services provided by long term care institutions in Manitoba, including hospital patients awaiting placement. These records ... |
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Long Term Care Access Centre
The Winnipeg intake system for new home care clients who are not in hospital before entering the home care program. |
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Long Term Care Admissions
A long term care admission for a mental health disorder is an admission to an acute care hospital where the principal (most responsible) diagnosis is in the range ICD-9-CM 290-319, and distinguished from an acute care admission by a number of criteria in... |
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Long-Stay Days by Cause
The total number of days of hospital care used for stays of 30 days or longer in a fiscal year by ICD-9-CM chapters. Most responsible diagnosis is used to define cause of hospitalization. |
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Long-Stay Patients
Patients who stay in hospital for greater than 30 days. |
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Long-Term Care (LTC) Beds
The number of Long Term Care (LTC) beds in each RHA. Also known as Personal Care Home (PCH) Beds. |
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Long-Term Care (LTC) Days
Long-term care days included both days in PCHs and, for Winnipeg only, days in chronic care facilities (Deer Lodge Centre and Riverview Health Centre). |
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Longitudinal Data
Data that covers multiple years; it allows one to study change over time for numerous variables. |
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Longitudinal Study
A longitudinal survey describes or measures a population at several points in time. |
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Longitudinal Survey
A longitudinal survey is a survey that collects data on a sample population at multiple points in time. Longitudinal survey data can be used to estimate the incidence of new cases of a disease or condition and examine trends over time in a population. An ... |
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Lorenz Curve
The Lorenz curve is a graphical display of the distribution of the cumulative percent of events by the cumulative percent of people in the population. Please see the Lorenz Curve concept for more information. |
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LOS
acronym for Length Of Stay (LOS) |
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Loss To Follow-up
Occurs when an individual cannot be followed for the duration of a study because at some point during the study period he/she is ineligible for health care coverage. |
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Low Birth Weight
Any infant who weighs less than 2500 grams at birth. It is 1 of 6 major Health Status Indicator categories (Cohen & MacWilliam, 1994). Other, slightly modified definitions have been used over time: In Brownell et al. (... |
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Low Birth Weight Rate
The number of live born babies with a birth weight of less than 2500 grams divided by the total number of live born babies. This may involve using several years of data. |
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Low Number of Prenatal Care Visits
A woman is considered to have a low number of prenatal care visits if they have less than five prenatal care visits (as recorded on the maternal delivery record) prior to delivery. |
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