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41.	PCH Location acronym for Personal Care Home (PCH) Location
42.	PCI acronym for Preventive Care Index (PCI)
43.	PD acronym for Per Diem (PD)
44.	PDD acronym for Prescribed Daily Dose (PDD)
45.	PE acronym for Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
46.	Peak Flu Period Time during winter months (December - April) when a concentrated number of people are admitted to acute care hospitals with influenza-like illnesses.
47.	Pediatric Home Care Provides nursing care to support family in situations where the family requires teaching and support in care activities, medically complex children in schools and at home.
48.	Pediatrician / Paediatrician A physician who deals with the care of infants and children and the treatment of their diseases.
49.	Pending Pending means the case is still in the process of being investigated or prosecuted. See
50.	Per Capita An amount (often, though not always dollars) that is usually expressed per person, but may also be per hundred people, per thousand, or per hundred thousand.
51.	Per Capita Expenditure The amount of expenditure per thousand, or hundred thousand population.
52.	Per Capita Hospital Expenditure The amount of hospital expenditure per thousand, or hundred thousand population.
53.	Per Diem (PD) The daily cost / amount reimbursed for providing services in a specific location.
54.	Percent of Visits from Non-Allocated Patients This is the percent of ambulatory visits to a primary care provider that are from patients not allocated to that provider using the allocation algorithm. For more information on the patient allocation algorithm, see the concept
55.	Percentile "Percentiles are values that divide a set of observations into 100 equal parts. The percentile rank is the proportion of values in a distribution that a specific value is greater than or equal to." (from
56.	Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) / Angioplasty Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) include percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) procedures, commonly known as "angioplasty" or "balloon angioplasty". These procedures treat the narrowed coronary arteries of the heart often found in...
57.	Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) See Angioplasty.
58.	Performance of Procedures on Very Young Children The volume and distribution of tonsillectomy on children less than 3 years old.
59.	Perinatal Period The perinatal period commences at 22 completed weeks (154 days) of gestation (the time when birth weight is normally 500 g), and ends seven completed days after birth.
60.	Period Prevalence This measures the number of individuals with a specific disease or condition in a population over a period of time (e.g.: 5 years), divided by the number of individuals in the population at mid-period (Young, TK, 1998). This is the most common measure of...

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