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Readmission Rate (Newborn)
See Newborn Readmission Rate. |
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Reason for Termination
An indicator that identifies why a client is no longer receiving Home Care services. Examples of reasons for termination include: recovered, deceased, placed in Personal Care Home (PCH), hospitalized, non-admission, and other. |
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Receipt of Income Assistance
Income assistance (IA) is a program of financial assistance for people who need help to meet basic personal and family needs. As such, it is a measure of poverty or economic instability. IA involves monetary support allocated by the provincial government ... |
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Receipt of Protective or Support Services
Any child or family receiving protective or support services from Child and Family Services. Although support services are supposed to be voluntary, and protective services mandatory, this distinction is often blurred in the Child and Family Services Info... |
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Receipt of the Families First Screen (FFS)
This indicator measures the percentage of pregnancies in each time period that can be linked to a Familes First Screen (FFS). Pregnancies were assigned to a time period by start date. |
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Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve
The ROC curve is used to evaluate the accuracy of any method of predicting a dichotomous outcome (e.g. Logistic Regression); it graphically represents the trade-off between false positive and false negative rates for every possible cut off. The graph plot... |
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Receiving Income Assistance
Individuals who receive income assistance, administered through Manitoba's Employment and Income Assistance Program, to meet basic personal and family needs. See the Receipt of Income Assistance glossar... |
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Recent Immigrant
A recent immigrant is a person who has spent a short amount of time since arriving to the n...
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Recent Use Projection Model
Estimating future needs by looking at recent patterns. Using data from the three most recent fiscal years, utilization projections were made based on the current rate(s) and the assumption that utilization will only change as the distribution of the popu... |
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Reconstructive Biliary Surgery
Reconstructive biliary surgery is a subsequent procedure to repair the bile ducts as a result of an accidental cut or injury to the ducts during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. |
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Record Linkage / Data Linkage
A set of techniques to match, or link, common or related records from one file with those from another. For example, information on the same individual in two or more files can be merged into one file by matching the records on a set of common identifiers... |
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Record of Death
Vital Statistics maintains a registry of deaths in the province. See the Record of Death concept and the Vital Statistics Mortality Registry Data glossary term... |
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Red River College (RRC) Data
The Red River College (RRC) data contains administrative information concerning all students enrolled at Red River College (RRC), the largest and most comprehensive institute of applied learning in Manitoba, offering over 110 diploma, certificate, and app... |
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Reference Based Pricing Policies
Reimburse patients using any of the products within a class of close-substitutes according to the price of the lowest cost product within that class. Reference pricing policies typically involve special authority exemptions for patients that have clinical... |
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Reference Group
In statistics, this group is used for comparisons with other groups that are subjected to a treatment or are influenced by a factor. A reference group should have a large sample size and small standard error. (Meyers LS et al., 2006). |
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Referral Index (RI)
An Index developed to reflect the extent to which a physician over or under-refers patients compared to the average physician after taking into account the characteristics of their practice population. It is the ratio of the actual number of referred pati... |
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Referring Facility
The hospital, area of the hospital (e.g. Emergency department at Health Sciences Centre), or clinic where the patient was seen by the practitioner. |
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Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (RDRG®)
A refined version of the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG™) case-mix system that classifies cases into levels of severity and complexity based on the presence of comorbidities and complications and their impact on resource use. This system has been used... |
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Refugee
Refugee claimants (or asylum seekers) are admitted on humanitarian grounds. Refugees can be ...
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Region of Residence
The region of residence is the area where people live at any given point in time, and where their health service use is allocated, regardless of where the service was provided. Over time, regions have been assigned using different methods in MCHP research... |
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