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PCH Location
acronym for Personal Care Home (PCH) Location |
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PCI
acronym for Preventive Care Index (PCI) |
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PD
acronym for Per Diem (PD) |
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PDD
acronym for Prescribed Daily Dose (PDD) |
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PE
acronym for Pulmonary Embolism (PE) |
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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. |
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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. |
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Pediatrician / Paediatrician
A physician who deals with the care of infants and children and the treatment of their diseases. |
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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. |
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Per Capita Expenditure
The amount of expenditure per thousand, or hundred thousand population. |
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Per Capita Hospital Expenditure
The amount of hospital expenditure per thousand, or hundred thousand population. |
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Per Diem (PD)
The daily cost / amount reimbursed for providing services in a specific location. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA)
See Angioplasty. |
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Performance of Procedures on Very Young Children
The volume and distribution of tonsillectomy on children less than 3 years old. |
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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. |
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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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Peripartum Social Isolation
This indicator measures the percent of women who received a Family First Screen (FFS) who were pregnant and responded "yes" to the FFS question about social isolation due to lack of social support, culture, language or geographical issues. |
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