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Tenant Management System (TMS) Data
The Tenant Management System (TMS) data is collected by Manitoba Housing and Community Development to administer the Social Housing Program in Manitoba. The data provides details on all households living in social housing units managed by Manitoba Housing... |
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Term Birth
Birth where the gestational age of the infant is 37 to 41 weeks. Can be further divided to capture early term (37 to 39 weeks) births. |
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Tertiary Care
Care that requires highly specialized skills, technology, and support services. This care is often only provided in a small number of locations. |
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Tertiary Hospital / Tertiary Care Hospital
Facilities that provide medical care that requires highly specialized skills, technology, and support services. In Manitoba, the only tertiary hospitals are Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface General Hospital. |
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Tertiary Prevention
The aim of tertiary prevention is to identify and alleviate established disease, in order to improve or maintain functional status. The rationale depends on the ability to prevent disability and handicap, but not necessarily the impairment itself, which m... |
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Tetanus (T)
An infectious disease that affects the body's muscles and nerves. It is often due to the contamination of a skin wound by a bacterium called Clostridium tetani , which is often found in soil. |
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TFR
acronym for Total Fertility Rate (TFR) |
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The Need to Know Team (NTK)
A collaborative research team including researchers from the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), high-level planners from each of Manitoba's health regions / RHAs; and representatives from Manitoba Health. The goal of the team is to: f... |
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Therapeutic Interchange
The substitution of chemically distinct but therapeutically equivalent drugs. Most often involves drugs within the same pharmaceutical class. |
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Therapeutic Interchange Policy
Reimbursing consumers at the rate of the lowest price equivalent drug - a policy that promotes consumer's price sensitivity when selecting among both patented and non-patented products. Uses reference based pricing mechanisms, prescribing protocols, and s... |
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Time Comparison of Disparity Rate Ratios (DRR)
Measure of change in a socioeconomic gap over time. This is calculated using the difference between the lowest and highest neighbourhood income groups and measuring the change in these differences from the latest time period relative to the oldest time pe... |
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Timeliness
This term is used in the MCHP Data Quality Framework. Timeliness refers to how current the data are in a dataset. This is indicated by: time until a dataset is acquired, time until the data is released to MCHP, and time until updates... |
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Tobit Regression
A special type of statistical regression analysis that assumes data are truncated, or censored, above or below certain values. |
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Tonsillectomy / Adenoidectomy Rates
The number of tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy procedures performed over a three year period per 1,000 children aged 0 to 14 years. Values are adjusted to reflect the 0 to 14 year old population of Manitoba (males and females combined). |
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Tonsillectomy and/or Adenoidectomy (T & A)
The surgical removal of tonsils and/or adenoid glands. In De Coster et al. (2007), this was defined using ICD-9-CM procedure codes 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, or 28.6. In Brownell et al. (2008)), this was defined using either ICD-9-CM or CCI procedure codes... |
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Top-Down Costing
Costing approach that starts at the top with total cost and then allocates it down to a measure of output. |
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Total Acuity by Income Status
Analyses undertaken by MCHP have demonstrated that individuals of lower socioeconomic status have higher rates of admission to hospital and spend more days in hospital than those of higher socioeconomic status. Total acuity was investigated on admission ... |
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Total Days of Hospital Care
See Days of Hospital Care. |
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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
The number of children who would be born to an average woman who experiences each of the age-specific fertility rates of a population in a given year as she progresses through her reproductive lifetime. |
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Total Hip Replacement
See Hip Replacement Surgery. |
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