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Manitoba Residents
Defined by Manitoba Health, includes all persons who reside in the province of Manitoba, as well as persons who reside temporarily out of the province (e.g. students attending post-secondary schools out of province) as well as Manitoba residents who have ... |
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Manitoba Support Services Payroll (MSSP) Database
An administrative database developed by Manitoba Health in 1988 as a payroll system for direct service workers employed by the Department of Health. The MSSP now also serves as a master file of the Manitoba Home Care Program's clients and of MSSP employee... |
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Manitoba Telehealth Data
Manitoba Telehealth data contains information on the Manitoba Telehealth Program. This program enables patient-physician communication with the aim of providing comprehensive health services to remote or distant areas in a timely fashion. NOTE: ... |
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Manitoba Training Program (MTP) for Health Services Research
"The Manitoba Training Program for Health Services Research is a one-year training program offered to thesis-based master’s and PhD students. Students may receive support from the program for a total period of one year (September to August), with $17,85... |
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Manitoba Tuberculosis (TB) Registry Data
The Manitoba Tuberculosis (TB) Registry contains information on persons suspected of, diagnosed with, and treated for TB in Manitoba. Information on people in contact with cases of active TB is also included in the Manitoba TB Registry. For more infor... |
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Mantel-Haenszel Test
Two groups are compared on a binary response, adjusting for control variables and applied to K strata of 2 x 2 tables where response totals are treated as fixed. Under the null hypothesis of conditional independence, this statistic has approximately a chi... |
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Marginal Cost
The cost of an additional day of care in hospital, after the trim point of the Average Length of Stay has been reached. |
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Marital Status
The relationship status of an individual. Different sources of data provide different measures of marital status. For example, the Manitoba Health Insurance Registry includes the categories: married, single, and widowed. The 1996 National Population H... |
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Markov Model
The Markov model is a modelling approach that predicts how likely an event is to enter a specific state in the future based on the current state of this event and chance (Last, 2001). This approach can use constant likelihood of each event state (stationa... |
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Mastectomy
See Breast Surgery. |
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Master (Common) Formulary
A standardized list of all drugs, or Drug Identification Number (DINs), developed and updated annually at MCHP from the Drug Identification Number (DIN) Master File. A common formulary was needed to handle the different combinations of DINs in the variou... |
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Matched Cohorts
Two groups of individuals in a study who are made to have a similar distribution on some confounding characteristics (typically demographics such as age, sex, residence, income, etc.). One group is the study cohort and they will all share a characteristic... |
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Matching (Moments and Percentile)
This is one of the methods used in obtaining parameter estimates of a statistical model by equating the theoretical and empirical moments or percentiles. For moment matching for instance, the theoretical mean or standard deviation will be equated to the e... |
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Matching Cases and Controls
Matching cases and controls involves matching a study participant with a particular condition or treatment (i.e., case) to a study participant without that condition or treatment (i.e., control). |
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Material Deprivation Index
A factor score derived from Canadian Census data that reflects the deprivation of goods and conveniences and includes the following indicators: average household income, unemployment rate, and high school education rate (Pampalon & Raymond, 2000). |
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Maternal Abstract
The maternal abstract is a hospital discharge abstract with an abstract type = "Obstetrical" (3). The maternal abstract contains patient demographic data and data relating to the mother's pregnancy/birthing experience, such as parity and gravidity; ICD-9... |
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Maternal Age
The age of the mother at the time of delivery. In Heaman et al. (2012), women were grouped into six categories: 12-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39 and 40 and older. |
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Maternal and Newborn Health Status Indicators
These are health and health status measures / indicators related to five separate categories: Profile of Women Giving Birth; Maternal Prenatal Health; Giving Birth; Maternal Postpartum Health; and Fetal and Newborn Health that were investigated in th... |
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Maternal Depression
In Brownell et al. (2007), maternal depression was defined as the presence of any hospital or physician claims coding depression between 8 months before the birth and 4 months after birth. Included were ICD-9-CM codes from the hospital files or physician ... |
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Maternal Diabetes
A composite variable created that includes a diagnosis of Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes. |
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