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61.	Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) A chronic, progressive circulation disorder caused by narrowing of the blood vessels (atherosclerosis) located outside of the heart, including arteries, veins or lymphatic vessels. For this reason, PVD is often used synonymously with the term peripheral a...
62.	Peritoneal Dialysis Peritoneal dialysis is a procedure that uses the patient's blood vessels in the abdominal lining in place of the kidneys to filter the patient's blood. This type of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is less restrictive than hemodialysis because it does not ...
63.	Permanent Resident A permanent resident is someone who has been given permanent resident status by immigrating...
64.	Persistence (of Pharmaceutical Use) is broadly defined as continuing a course of (pharmaceutical) therapy when it is indicated that one should do so.
65.	Person-Years / Person Years A measurement of observation time per person and is often used as the denominator in incidence rates when, for varying periods, individuals are at risk of developing a disease, using a health service, or dying. Instead of using the number of people at the...
66.	Personal Care Activities of daily living including bathing, transferring, grooming, hygiene, mobility, feeding, and elimination.
67.	Personal Care Home (PCH) This term has different definitions in MCHP research. The majority use definition 1 below. Personal Care Homes (PCHs) are residential facilities for predominantly older persons with chronic illness or disability, also known as nursing homes(...
68.	Personal Care Home (PCH) / Long-Term Care (LTC) Persons admitted or panelled (on waiting list) to a Personal Care Home or long-term care facility, as recorded in the Personal Care Home file. We identified individuals as new clients if they were not registered in the Personal Care Home file in the year ...
69.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Admissions This indicator measures the percentage of area residents age 75+ admitted to a PCH in a year (values are the annual average for a two-year period). Area of residence was assigned based on where people lived at the time, which is determined by the location...
70.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Bed Equivalent All care provided to older adults (65+) that is currently being provided via PCHs; in this study current is the period at and immediately prior to 2008/09. This care may be provided by alternative sources in the future, but is equivalent to PCH care in 20...
71.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Bed Supply This indicator measures the average annual number of personal care home (PCH) beds per 1,000 residents 75 years and older. Provincial bed counts were taken from the Manitoba Health Bed Map. Federal bed counts and counts for Churchill were provided by the ...
72.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Beds The number of Personal Care Home (PCH) / Long Term Care (LTC) beds available.
73.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Costs These costs are estimated by multiplying the number of PCH days by a per diem.
74.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Data Data available from POPULIS includes the number of beds, admissions, the number of residents in PCHs, days of PCH care per resident, estimated costs of PCH care per resident, and estimated costs per PCH day. In addition, analysis can be performed on all a...
75.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Location Geographical location of Personal Care Homes (PCH) are determined by the same method used to determine Hospital Location.
76.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Per Diem Derived by taking Manitoba Health's expenditures for Personal Care Homes (PCH) and dividing that amount by the total number of PCH day, as obtained from the PCH file. Subtract an average residential charge of 35.00 dollars (the average amount paid by PCH ...
77.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Resident Rates The number of people in an area residing in a PCH for a defined period of time divided by the total number of people in that area. In this study, this was calculated for each RHA, separately for males and females, and three age groups (65-74, 75-84, 85+).
78.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Residents In Finlayson et al. (2007), a PCH resident is someone who lives in a personal care home (PCH); measured by the number of days they resided in a personal care home, weighted by their level of care. As an indicator, this measures the average annual perc...
79.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Types In Manitoba, personal care homes can be proprietary (for profit) or non-proprietary. Non-proprietary homes can be secular or ethno-cultural (associated with a particular religious faith or language other than English) as well as either freestanding or ju...
80.	Personal Care Home (PCH) Use The use of services provided in personal care homes (PCHs). The following variables have been used by Martens et al. (2003) and/or Martens et al. (2004) to analyze PCH use: Admissions - those admitted to a PCH in ...

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