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Sentinel Services (Physician)
For physicians, services that represents a significant proportion of the workload for a particular specialty. They are "determined by true patient need and not likely to be heavily influenced by physician discretion" (Expert Panel on Health Professional H... |
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Separation Rates for Day Surgery
The rate of hospital separations for day surgeries (in which a patient is not admitted to hospital), per 1,000 area residents in a fiscal year. Multiple admissions of the same person are counted as separate events. Values are adjusted to reflect the total... |
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Separation Rates for Inpatient Care
The rate of hospital separations for all inpatient cases (that is, those admitted to hospital for at least one day), per 1,000 area residents in a fiscal year. Multiple admissions of the same person are counted as separate events. Values are adjusted to r... |
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Separation Rates for Long Stays (30+ days)
The rate of hospital separations for stays of 30 days or more, per 1,000 area residents in a fiscal year. Personal Care Homes and hospitals dedicated to long-term care are excluded, though chronic care beds within acute care hospitals could not be accurat... |
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Separation Rates for Short Stays (0 to 29 days)
The rate of hospital separations for stays of 0 to 29 days (i.e. including day surgery cases), per 1,000 area residents in a fiscal year. The majority of hospitalizations are for short stays. Multiple admissions of the same person are counted as separate ... |
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Separation Rates-Total
The rate of hospitalizations / separations per 1,000 area residents in a fiscal year, counting all cases for which a hospital discharge abstract is created (all inpatients, whether short or long stay, plus day surgery cases). Multiple admissions of the sa... |
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Separation(s)
A separation from a health care facility occurs anytime a patient (or resident) leaves because of death, discharge, sign-out against medical advice or transfer. The number of separations is the most commonly used measure of the utilization of hospital ser... |
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Sepsis
Refers to a constellation of clinical signs (e.g., rapid heart rate, fever, elevated white blood cell count) that is due to infection. |
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SERI
acronym for Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI) |
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Serial Migration
Serial migration refers to a sequence of at least three relocations of a person in differen...
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Serious Mental Health Disorder
See Psychotic Disorder. |
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Seroconversion
The development of antibodies in response to an antigen, either via infection or immunization. |
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Serodiagnostic Testing
See Serology Section glossary term. |
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Serology Section
Service provider at the Cadham Provincial Laboratory. Responsibilities include: detection and determination of antigens or antibodies; screening and diagnosis of infections due to viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic agents; evaluating response to immun... |
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Service Codes
A numeric field identifying the hospital service(s) that the patient received while in hospital. A list of patient service codes are available in either Appendix E of the Hospital Abstract User Manual (HAUM) documentation or in the Discharge Abstract Data... |
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Service Transfer Code
A numeric field identifying additional hospital service(s) that the patient received while in a different patient service in the admitting hospital or services received upon transfer to a different institution (Canadian Institute for Health Information (C... |
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Service Type - In Hospital
A categorization of inpatient hospitalizations into different Service Types based on several criteria. In Fransoo et al. (2013), a multi-step process was used to group inpatient hospitalizations into nine Service Type categories based on age, Most Respon... |
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Service Types - Physician Visits
A numeric field identifying the type of physician service found in the Medical Services (physician visit) data. |
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SES
acronym for Socio-Economic Status (SES) . |
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Sessional Payments
These payments are for a variety of services such as total care in the community, public health, emergency rooms, intensive care units, pathology and radiology. |
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