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Rehabilitation
One of 13 alternate levels of care, this is defined as 24-hour supervision and assessment provided by a team of rehabilitation personnel, or a therapy program planned by a physiotherapist delivered daily to patients expected to be discharged fully restore... |
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Rehabilitative Care
Care for patients who have experienced a debilitating illness (e.g: stroke), injury or major surgery. Rehabilitation patients receive specialized care which may include physical therapy for increased strength and mobility, occupational therapy for improve... |
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Relationship Distress
Distress or conflict between parenting partners (e.g., separations, frequent arguments). This is an item on the Families First Screening Form assessed by public health nurses. As an indicator, this measures the percentage of women with newborns who report... |
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Relative Case Weights (RCW)
Standardized weights that represent the expected relative cost of treating the average case in a RDRG®. The relativity is established by indexing the average case cost of each RDRG® against the average case cost for all RDRGs®, which is assign... |
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Relative Cost Weights
See Relative Case Weights (RCW). |
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Relative Rate (RR)
The relative rate (RR), also called a rate ratio, is the ratio of the incidence rate of disease or death among the group exposed to the incidence rate of disease or death among the unexposed group. In Martens et al., 2015, the group exposed were those ... |
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Relative Risk (RR)
Relative Risk (RR) is the ratio of two risk estimates, as illustrated in the the following example: Males Females QI present a b QI absent c |
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Relative Weights
Values assigned to each DRG™ that identify its relative weight in terms of resource use compared to a standardized value. |
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Reliability
Achieving the same result from two or more different sources. |
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Remigration
Remigration is a special type of outmigration or emigration in which an international immig...
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Remote Communities
Remote communities are communities in Manitoba that do not have permanent road access (i.e., no all-weather road), are more than a four-hour drive from a major rural hospital (and a dialysis unit), or have rail or fly-in access only. This includes Norway ... |
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Renal Disease
The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs. Part of the urinary system, the kidneys filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them, along with water, as urine. The adjective meaning "kidney related" is renal, from the Latin. Any disease... |
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Renal Failure
Renal failure is the loss of the kidneys ability to remove wastes, concentrate urine, and maintain electrolytes levels in the blood. At MCHP, our definition of renal failure includes both acute and chronic renal failure. Renal disease associated with some... |
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Renal Failure Treatment Prevalence
The percentage of residents aged 20 or older diagnosed with renal failure (ICD-9-CM code 584, 585, or 586) in a physician visit or hospitalization in a five year period. Renal failure is often a complication of diabetes, but can have other causes as well.... |
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Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)
Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a therapy for patients with kidney failure that replaces kidney function (i.e., removal of wastes and excess water from the body) (Miller & Keane, 2003). RRT includes hemodialysis (centre- or home-based), peritoneal dia... |
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Rent Assist (formerly RentAid, Shelter Benefits) Data
The Rent Assist (formerly RentAid, Shelter Benefits) data collects information on the application for and distribution of a monthly benefit which helps seniors, families, persons with disabilities, and others receiving income assistance to pay their rent.... |
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Rental Houses
Non-owner occupied residential dwellings including: single family homes, side by sides, duplex, duplex conversion, triplex, and apartment-converted dwellings with 3 to 4 single family units. Apartment blocks, agricultural and government properties are not... |
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Repatriating Care
The strategy of shifting hospital care from more expensive urban hospitals to less expensive rural facilities. |
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Repeated Benzodiazepine Prescriptions
Repeated benzodiazepine prescriptions was defined as at least three prescriptions in a fiscal year. Please see the Benzodiazepine Use concept for a list of ATC codes and generic drug names used to identify benz... |
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Repeated Opioid Prescriptions
The prevalence of repeated opioid prescriptions is the age- and sex-adjusted percentage of the population prescribed three or more opioid prescriptions in one year. Please see the Opioids glossary term ... |
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