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Short Term Care at Home
Home Care services lasting between 1 to 60 days, that are provided to Home Care clients. |
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Sibling Spacing
Time elapsed (measured in days) between the birth of a child and the birth of his or her ...
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Siblings
Children born to the same parents. Children with only the same mother (different father) ...
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Sickness Level
See Resource Utilization Bands (RUBs) glossary term. |
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Significance Testing
Tests of significance are used to determine whether the outcome of a study would lead to a rejection of the null hypothesis based on a low probability (usually 5% or less) threshold called p-values . Resul... |
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Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS I, II)
A multipurpose scoring systems for intensive care unit (ICU) patients designed to provide an estimate of the probability of hospital mortality for ICU patients. Variables considered include age, comorbidities, physiological abnormalities, acute diagnosis ... |
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Single Entry
A system that admits clients to all types of continuing care only through a single assessment point. |
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Single Event Rate Indicators
A list of medical conditions where death, and for most conditions the disease itself, are preventable or avoidable so that even one case is considered to be disturbing (Carr et al., 1988 and Rustein et al., 1980). |
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Single Parent (formerly Lone Parent)
Refers to the parent of a family in which there is only one parent. Also known as lone pa...
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Single Parent Family (formerly Lone Parent Family)
Statistics Canada defines a single parent family as a mother or a father, with no spouse ...
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Singleton Birth
The birth of only one child during a single delivery with a gestation of 20 weeks or more. For a list of ICD codes identifying a singleton birth, please see the ICD Codes for Mother Delivery Outcomes - from Child Health Atlas Update - 2008 docum... |
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Six Month Assessment - Insight Mentoring Program
The six-month assessment used in the Insight Mentoring Program is designed to be completed by each participant's mentor every six months based on their knowledge of the participant, to track how she is progressing through the program. The questions on thi... |
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Size for Gestational Age
Size for gestational age is a measure of fetal growth, where small-for-gestational-age is considered an indicator of fetal growth restriction and a marker for increased fetal and infant mortality and morbidity risk, and large-for-gestational-age is consid... |
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Skin Ulcers
One of six diagnostic quality indicators (QIs). Events of skin ulcers were counted using the ICD-9-CM code 707 in both the medical services/physician claims data and the hospital discharge abstracta data. This definition includes events of decubitus ulcer... |
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Small Area Analysis (SAA)
A technique that uses large administrative databases to obtain population-based measures of utilization and resource allocation. |
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Small Multi-Use Hospital
A general category of hospital that have, in addition to regular hospital beds, swing beds that can provide either hospital or PCH services. |
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Small Rural Hospital
A general category within hospital types that identifies hospitals located in smaller rural areas. In Fransoo et al. (2013) this included 26 hospitals. For a list of hospitals in this category, see the hospitals listed under the heading |
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Small-for-gestational-age (SGA)
Infants that are at or below the 10th percentile in birth weight, from an infant population of the same sex and gestational age. For more detailed information, see Kramer et al. (2001) in the concept titled Size for Gestational Age. |
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Smallpox / Monkeypox Vaccine
Due to an outbreak of the Monkeypox virus across the globe in 2022, new tariff and ICD-10-CA diagnosis codes were added to certain data sets in the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository, as follows: Tariff Rates and Descriptions - a new i... |
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Smoking - (CCHS Survey Data)
Smoking is the act of inhaling tobacco smoke from cigarettes, pipes or cigars. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, an addictive substance that causes some individuals to become addicted to smoking. Smoking damages the lungs and increases the risk of developi... |
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