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Non Ambulatory Care (NAC) Rate
Care provided by physicians that is not ambulatory in nature, represented quarterly as the ratio of billings for all Non Ambulatory Care to total billings. |
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Non-Acute Cases
Patients awaiting nursing home placement or receiving care on an extended care unit classified as chronic, geriatric, palliative, or rehabilitative care. |
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Non-Consultative Care
All ambulatory visits, other than consultations, including complete or regional histories and examinations and subsequent visits in which the progress of the patient's condition is monitored. Non-consultative care is usually provided by family physicians. |
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Non-Consultive Care
See Non-Consultative Care. |
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Non-Discretionary Procedures
Procedures for which there is little controversy over its indications; such procedures are generally the only treatments available or are the treatments of choice (e.g. colectomy for colon cancer, severe colitis or polyposis and thyroidectomy for hyperthy... |
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Non-Hip Fractures
Refers to all bone fractures except hip fractures. One of six diagnostic quality indicators (QIs). Events of non-hip fractures were counted using the ICD-9-CM codes 800 through 829 using both the medical services/physician claims data and the hospital dis... |
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Non-Insured Health Benefits Program
A program of the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada. This program provides a range of benefits not included in provincially and territorially administered insurance programs, to First Nations and Inuit individuals in the categories of dr... |
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Non-Manitoba Residents
Persons not considered residents by Manitoba Health are: non-residents of Manitoba , armed forces personnel, federal penitentiary inmates and foreign students. |
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Non-Normed Fit Index (NNFI)
Incremental measure of goodness of fit for a statistical model, which takes into account the size of the correlations in the data and the number of parameters in the model. This index provides an adjustment to the Normative Fit Index that incorporates the... |
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Non-Proprietary Free Standing Personal Care Home (PCH)
Describes a type of personal care home (PCH) that is operated on a non-profit basis, and it is not located close to an acute care facility. |
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Non-Proprietary Juxtaposed Personal Care Home (PCH)
Describes a type of personal care home (PCH) that is operated on a non-profit basis, and it is associated with an acute care facility. |
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Non-Proprietary Personal Care Home (PCH)
Describes a type of personal care home (PCH) that is operated on a non-profit basis. These PCHs are either free-standing or juxtaposed to another healthcare facility. |
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Non-Psychotic Disorder
Mental health disorders that includes mild affective disturbance and neurotic and personality disorders. The ICD-9-CM codes range from 300-301, 306-309, and 311. |
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Non-Psychotic Mental Health Condition
See Non-Psychotic Disorder. |
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Non-Status First Nations
A First Nation individual who is not registered as having "Indian" status under the Indian Act (1876). This may be due to many reasons such as his or her ancestors were ignored and never registered, or because he or she lost status under the 1876 India |
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Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID)
Medication used to reduce pain, inflammation and fever. For a list of NSAIDs, including the DINs and ATC codes, used in the Child Health Atlas Update (2008), please see the Links section below. |
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Non-Tertiary Care
Hospital care that does not require highly specialized skills, technology, or support services. |
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Non-Urban
Includes all Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) outside Winnipeg and Brandon, classified by postal code and/or municipal code. |
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Non-Winnipeg
Includes all Manitoban Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) except Winnipeg. |
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Northern Isolated Hospitals
A general category within Hospital Types that identifies hospitals located in northern, isolated regions of the province. These hospitals include: Snow Lake Medical Nursing Unit, Gillam Hospital Inc., Lynn Lake Hospital, Leaf Rapids Health Centre, and No... |
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