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Negative Binomial Regression
Regression analyses for count data that follows a negative binomial distribution, which occurs when an event is relatively rare, but is highly variable over the entire population - e.g.: when the variance is greater than the mean. |
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Negative Predictive Value (NPV)
The negative predictive value of a test is the probability that the patient will not have the disease/condition when restricted to all patients/subjects who test negative. You can compute the negative predictive value as NPV = TN / (TN + FN) where TN and ... |
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Neighbourhood Clusters (NC)
Aggregate geographies of neighborhoods within Winnipeg defined based on population and natural community boundaries (census divisions). Winnipeg is divided into 25 NCs based on Census Divisions, 23 of which are within the boundaries of the City of Winnip... |
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Neonatal
Defined as age from birth to 28 days. |
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Neonatal Hospital Readmission
A hospital readmission of a newborn that occurs more than one day after the discharge from the birth hospital stay and within 28 days of birth. For a list of reasons and the corresponding ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CA codes used to define these reasons, plea... |
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Neonatal Morbidity
"The risk of death during the newborn period - the first 28 days of life." (Olds SB et al., 2004). In Heaman et al. (2012), they developed and investigated a number of severe neonatal morbidities, including: neonatal sepsis, respiratory distress syndro... |
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Neonatal Mortality Rate
The number of deaths of live born babies weighing 500 grams or more within 27 days of birth per 1,000 live births. Note: This weight is consistent with definitions used by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The primary cause of neotnatal... |
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Neonatal Special Care Unit (SCU) / Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Admission
A live born baby was considered to have a neonatal SCU / NICU admission if there was any admission to a SCU / NICU during the birth hospitalization, which was noted by the presence of the SCU unit = 50 (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)) or SCU unit = 9... |
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Neonates
Neonates are newborns that are less than a month old. In this study, we defined neonates as infants 28 days old or younger. Post-neonates were defi ned as infants aged 29 days to less than one year (364 days). |
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Nephrologist Visits
This is an indicator of the number of visits to a nephrologist (kidney specialist). A nephrologist is identified by a value of "016" in the MDBLOC variable of the Medical Services (Physician Claims) data. ... |
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Neural Tube Defects
Birth defects of the brain and spinal cord. |
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Neuroleptics
see Antipsychotic Medications. |
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New Cases
The number of home care clients with a start date in the Home Care Program after April 1st (i.e. after the fiscal year start). |
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New User (New Use)
New use is usually defined as no dispensations for the drug under study for a specific person between April 1 and July 31 of the starting fiscal year of analysis. This is assumed to be a 4-month "washout" period of exposure to the study drug being analyze... |
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Newborn
A child that is from 0 to 28 days old. |
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Newborn Readmission
A hospital readmission of a newborn that occurs between one to 28 days after discharge from the birth hospital stay. |
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Newborn Readmission Rate
In Brownell et al. (2001), this is calculated as the ratio of infants with a hospital stay taking place more than one day after discharge from the birth hospital stay, to the number of live born infants who were discharged from their birth hospital stay a... |
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Newborn Screening and Public Health Chemistry Section
Service provider at the Cadham Provincial Laboratory. Responsibilities include Newborn Screening Program and Maternal Serum Screening. The Newborn Screening Program is guided by the Manitoba Perinatal Screening Committee and screens all newborns using a b... |
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Newborn Separation Abstract
The newborn separation abstract is a hospital discharge abstract with an abstract type = "Newborn and Stllborn". The newborn abstract contains patient data related to the birth of a child/children such as birthweight, the Apgar scores at 1 and 5 minutes, ... |
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NLSCY
acronym for National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) |
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