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Physician Salaries
See Salaried Physicians. |
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Physician Service Areas (PSA)
A geographic area that is identified based on where general practitioners (now referred to as family physicians) are providing their services and where residents are receiving services from these physicians. There are 54 PSAs in Manitoba. |
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Physician Service Claim
A record created representing a service provided by a physician. The records may be created in an electronic format or on a billing card. They may represent an actual bill for the service(s), or are submitted as a record of the service (an "evaluation c... |
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Physician Service Delivery Area
282 municipalities are divided in 58 physician service delivery areas, defined in terms of where individuals are getting the majority of their visits. The defining characteristic was a concentration of population and an associated set of physicians (usual... |
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Physician Services
Two measures of physician services were used in this study: total physician visits (excluding diagnostic laboratory and imaging services), and total physician visits recording a mental health diagnosis. Both measures are classified by site of service (amb... |
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Physician Specialties
Physicians are classified as either general practice (including family practice) or specialist. Specialists refer to the following: psychiatry, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, medical specialists, general surgeons, and surgical specialists. Se... |
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Physician Supply
The number of physicians who grossed 40,000 dollars or more in 1 year, based on submitted claims, and some salaried and all fee-for-service physicians. It does not include technical specialists, such as radiologists, anaesthetists or pathologists, nor doe... |
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Physician Use
In this study three variables were used to measure the use of physician services: psychiatrist visit rate, psychiatric diagnosis rate, and overall physician visit rate. Psychiatric diagnoses were defined as the presence of any of ICD-9-CM codes 290-319 (m... |
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Physician Visit Indicators
A set of indicators measuring the rate of ambulatory physician visits for 2 conditions: disability among youth and functional limitations. It is 1 of 6 major Health Status Indicator categories. |
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Physician Visits
See Ambulatory Visits - Physician. |
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Physician Visits - Mental Health Related
This is an indicator measuring the rate of ambulatory visits to a physician for a mental health related condition, identified by any diagnosis code from Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) in the ICD-9-CM code book. |
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Physician Visits - Service Types
See Service Types - Physician Visits. |
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Physician Visits Per Child
Measures the average number of physician contacts per child. |
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Physician Workload
The number of ambulatory physician visits provided by a physician per year. |
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Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
A computerized system for storage and distribution of digital medical images over a networked environment. |
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Placenta
"Specialized disk-shaped organ that connects the fetus to the uterine wall for gas and nutrient exchange. Also called afterbirth." (Olds SB et al., 2004). |
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Placenta Previa
A condition of pregnancy where a "placenta implanted in the lower segment of the uterus, presenting ahead of the leading pole of the fetus". (Oppenheimer L et al., 2007). For more information, please read the |
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Plurality Approach to Patient Assignment / Allocation
A method that assigns patients exclusively to their most responsible health care provider. In one method, the most responsible physician was the one who provided more of their visits than any other physician. When more than one physician provided equal nu... |
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PMR
acronym for Premature Mortality Rate (PMR) |
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Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV-7)
A vaccine for infants and young children to help prevent serious pneumococcal disease. This vaccine protects against seven strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae . |
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