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1. NAC Rate
acronym for Non Ambulatory Care (NAC) Rate
2. Narcotic Analgesic Medications
Medications used to control or relieve pain. For a list of narcotic analgesic medications, including the DINs and ATC codes, used in the Child Health Atlas Update (2008), please see the Links section below.
3. National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
A national committee comprised of experts in pediatrics, infectious diseases, immunology, medical microbiology, internal medicine, and public health. NACI makes recommendations for the use of vaccines approved for use in humans in Canada, advises on the n...
4. National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)
CIHI's standardized abstracting system for ambulatory care. It collects client visit data for hospital-based ambulatory care at the point of service in the facility. For more information on the NACRS data held in the MCHP Data Repository, please see th...
5. National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) Data
The National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) data contains summary information for NACRS data submission level 1 (e.g.: Emergency department) and level 3 (e.g.: Day Surgery and other ambulatory care visits) for Winnipeg hospital-based ambulatory ...
6. National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
THE NLSCY began in 1994 and is jointly conducted by Statistics Canada and Social Development Canada (SDC). These surveys included topics on health, education and activities of children; parental information such as work, income and health; and data on th...
7. National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
The NPHS was a survey administered by Statistics Canada that collected longitudinal data related to the health and socio-demographic conditions of the Canadian population. It was a biennial survey where the same respondents were re-interviewed every two y...
8. National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) Data
MCHP's National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) data contains demographic, administrative, and clinical information pertaining to physical rehabilitation clients in seven Winnipeg facilities. For more information on NRS data, see the: ...
9. Native
See Aboriginal Peoples.
10. NCs
acronym for Neighbourhood Clusters (NCs)
11. Near Graduate
A high school student who was in S4 in the 4th or 5th year, but has not completed or graduated from high school.
12. Need For Health Care
The ability or capacity to benefit from health care interventions. These benefits may be in the form of an improvement or restoration of health status, or in the form of maintenance or protection of health status.
13. Need For Hospital Care
A population-based estimate of an area's need for hospital services based on population characteristics (age, gender, socio-economic status (Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI)), and health status (Premature Mortality Rate (PMR))), and geographic location (w...
14. Need For Medical Care
See Need For Health Care.
15. Needs Adjustment
Second stage of Needs Based Allocations takes into account differences in the indicators of need: premature mortality and SES indicators.
16. Needs Based Allocations
Method of distributing health care funding equitably among the regions of Manitoba. Uses a two-stage adjustment model: 1). age and sex adjustment; 2). need, as measured by premature mortality and SES indicators.
17. Needs Based Approach
An approach to physician resource planning to identify the supply / demand of physicians based on the needs of the population. Needs are based on characteristics of the regions and its residents, including age, gender, socio-economic status, and health s...
18. Needs Based Funding
Method of allocating resources to ensure that the needs represented by different population age structures and health profiles are equitably met by the resources provided to Regional Health Authorities. Though similar to needs-based planning, these measur...
19. Needs Based Planning
A number of measures are used to determine the requirements for health care resources in an area, including: demographics, socio-economic status and health status. In particular, special attention is given to the age and gender of a population, premature ...
20. Negative Binomial Distribution
A discrete probability distribution appropriate for analyzing count data when an event is relatively rare, but is highly variable over the entire population. The negative binomial distribution is often employed in regression analyses when the Poisson dist...
21. 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.
22. 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 ...
23. 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...
24. Neonatal
Defined as age from birth to 28 days.
25. 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...
26. 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...
27. 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...
28. 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...
29. 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).
30. 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. ...
31. Neural Tube Defects
Birth defects of the brain and spinal cord.
32. Neuroleptics
see Antipsychotic Medications.
33. 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).
34. 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...
35. Newborn
A child that is from 0 to 28 days old.
36. Newborn Readmission
A hospital readmission of a newborn that occurs between one to 28 days after discharge from the birth hospital stay.
37. 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...
38. 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...
39. 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, ...
40. NLSCY
acronym for National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
41. 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.
42. Non-Acute Cases
Patients awaiting nursing home placement or receiving care on an extended care unit classified as chronic, geriatric, palliative, or rehabilitative care.
43. 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.
44. Non-Consultive Care
See Non-Consultative Care.
45. 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...
46. 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...
47. 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...
48. Non-Manitoba Residents
Persons not considered residents by Manitoba Health are: non-residents of Manitoba , armed forces personnel, federal penitentiary inmates and foreign students.
49. 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...
50. 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.
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. Non-Psychotic Mental Health Condition
See Non-Psychotic Disorder.
55. 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
56. 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.
57. Non-Tertiary Care
Hospital care that does not require highly specialized skills, technology, or support services.
58. Non-Urban
Includes all Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) outside Winnipeg and Brandon, classified by postal code and/or municipal code.
59. Non-Winnipeg
Includes all Manitoban Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) except Winnipeg.
60. 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...
61. Northern Regional Health Authorities (RHAs)
An aggregate geographical area, co-developed by MCHP and The Need To Know Team for use in MCHP research, which includes all of the Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) in northern Manitoba; Burntwood, NOR-MAN, an...
62. Not Graduating from High School
Individuals who have not completed grrade 12 as determined by the Department of Education data.
63. Notifiable Disease
"A disease deemed of sufficient importance to public health to require that its occurrence be reported to public health officials. The reporting of notifiable diseases is mandated by the provinces and territories; notifiable diseases may vary from provinc...
64. Notification of Subsequent Birth Form
The Notification of Subsequent Birth form used in the Insight Mentoring Program collects information on alcohol use, contraception, and prenatal care for any births that occur during the program after the birth of the target child.
65. NPHS
acronym for National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
66. NPV
acronym for Negative Predictive Value (NPV)
67. Null Hypothesis
The statistical hypothesis that a variable is not associated with another variable or set of variables, or that two population distributions do not differ from one another. In other words, it means that the observed results of a study or test are no diffe...
68. Nullipara
"A woman who has not given birth at more than 20 weeks gestation." (Olds SB et al., 2004).
69. Number at Risk
See Denominator at Risk.
70. Number of Active Ingredients
The total number of active (medicinal) ingredients (NAIS) contained in a product. This is available in the Master Formulary from the Drug Product Database.
71. Number of Children in a Family
concept/Social Determinants of Health-SDOH-Digital Library-Image.jpg The number of children registered under the "family head" in the Manitoba Health Insuranc...
72. Number of Diagnoses
The number of diagnoses is a comorbidity measure based on all the ICD–9–CM and ICD–10–CA diagnosis codes attributed to patients during medical visits and hospitalizations over a specific period of time. Post–admit comorbidities (complications) ...
73. Number of Different Types of Drugs Dispensed per User
This is the average number of different types of drugs prescribed to each resident who had at least one prescription in the year. Each pharmaceutical agent that falls under a different fourth-level Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) class is counted as...
74. Number of Different Types of Prescription Drugs Used
See Number of Different Types of Drugs Dispensed per User glossary term.
75. Number of Drugs (Different) Dispensed
One of four measures of intensity of use, this is the rate of the average number of different drugs dispensed per year per resident and per pharmaceutical user.
76. Number of Prescription Drugs Dispensed
The number of different types of drugs prescribed is a comorbidity measure based on the ATC codes of prescribed medications for all prescriptions patients filled in the year prior to their diagnosis. Each pharmaceutical agent that falls under a different ...
77. Number of Prescriptions Dispensed
One of four measures of intensity of use, this is the rate of the number of prescriptions dispensed per resident and per pharmaceutical user.
78. Nurse Practitioner / Nurse Practitioners
A registered nurse with advanced qualifications who provides a full range of primary care services to patients. Nurse practitioners can order diagnostic tests, prescribe drugs, and perform specific procedures in a variety of healthcare settings. Please...
79. Nursing Home
see Personal Care Home (PCH).
80. Nursing Home Drug Program Data
The Nursing Home Drug Program data contains information on the drug utilization at Personal Care Homes (PCH) / nursing homes in Manitoba. This includes drug utilization at the individual level and bulk purchases for general use within the PCH / nursing ho...
81. Nursing Stations
A health care clinic, usually located in the northern isolated communities in Manitoba, where the majority of care is provided by nursing personnel. There are 22 federal nursing stations in Manitoba and 3 provincial ones; all are located on First Nations ...

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