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Total Housing Units
Total number of housing units in each community irrespective of quality standards or occupancy. Total Housing Units = Housing Units -Adequate + Housing Units -Minor Renovation + Housing Units -Major Renovation + Housing Units -Replacement. |
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Total Knee Replacement
See Knee Replacement Surgery. |
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Total Mortality by Cause & Injury Mortality by Cause
The most frequent causes of total mortality for Manitobans were reported for five calendar years, 2002-2006. Cause of death came from the Vital Statistics Mortality Registry Data. Due to the rarity of i... |
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Total Mortality Rate
The number of deaths per 1,000 area residents, per year. This measures the rate of death from all causes and is an indication of the overall health of the population, similar to what is measured by life expectancy. Both crude and adjusted rates can be cal... |
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Total Physical Activity Levels - (CCHS Survey Data)
In the CCHS, total physical activity is a derived variable for respondents based on the average daily energy expenditure values (kcal/kg/day) calculated from a series of questions on physical activity (i.e., usual daily activities or occupational-related ... |
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Total Practice Population
The total number of patients who made an ambulatory visit to a particular group of general/family practitioners over a designated period of time. |
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Total Respiratory Morbidity (TRM)
Total Respiratory Morbidity (TRM) is a measure of the burden of all types of respiratory illnesses in the population and includes any of the following respiratory illnesses: asthma, chronic or acute bronchitis, emphysema, chronic airway obstruction. In ea... |
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Total Respiratory Morbidity (TRM) Mortality
This indicator measures the crude and adjusted mortality rate for residents age 19 and older with and without TRM. Individuals were categorized as with or without TRM in a fiscal year and their mortality rate was calculated in the subsequent five year per... |
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Total Weighted Cases (TWC)
For a hospital, type of hospital, Regional Health Authority, or province, this equals the sum of the case weights (i.e.: RIWs™) for all cases discharged during a specified period of time. |
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Transfers
Patient transfers between hospitals or other facilities as part of an episode of care. |
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Transformation (Logarithmic)
The act of replacing a data set with the equivalent values in another system. Appropriately transforming the values can help counteract violations of basic statistical assumptions. For example, taking logarithms often will make skewed data normal. |
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Transitional Care Facilities
A general category within hospital types that identifies hospitals that are focused primarily on providing long-term care rather than acute care. In Fransoo et al. (2013) this included 13 facilities, located in the Southern and Prairie Mountain Health Reg... |
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Translational research
Research that seeks to characterize the sequence of events through which a scientific discovery moves between basic scientists, clinical researchers, practitioners, and consumers, and to find more effective ways to facilitate this process. Translational r... |
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Transportation Data
The Transportation data contains information on two types of ambulance travel in rural Manitoba:Rural Ground Transport - ground ambulance calls and grants to rural services in Manitoba; and Northern Patient Transport - transportation of n... |
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Transurethral Prostatectomy (TURP)
The surgical removal of a portion of the prostate gland via the urethra (the tube through which urine is discharged from the bladder). It is typically used for cases of benign (non-cancer) enlargement of the prostate. Recent advances in drug therapy have ... |
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Trauma Registry Data
The Trauma Registry data contains individual level information on severely injured patients seen at the Health Sciences Centre Trauma Unit in Winnipeg. The data set includes: type of injury codes, severity of injury including an Injury Severity Score, da... |
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Damage to the brain due to a sudden head trauma (e.g., an object striking the head or puncturing the brain). Some symptoms of a mild TBI are headache, confusion, dizziness, blurred vision, fatigue, and impaired memory or concentration. Some symptoms of a ... |
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Travelling to Give Birth - Distance
This measures the distance in kilometres that a woman had to travel to hospital from home in order to give birth. The method uses the centroid of the postal code of the women's residence and the centroid of the postal code of the hospital where she gave b... |
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Travelling to Give Birth - Location
In Heaman et al. (2012), this indicator measures the proportion of women who travelled outside of their Regional Health Authority (RHA) of residence to give birth. In some areas, this may not represent a great distance. In Fransoo et al. (2019), this ... |
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Treatment Factors
Certain treatment factors that were available in the hospital file were thought to potentially influence length of stay. These included rehabilitation care, ventilatory support, dialysis, and PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube insertion. The W... |
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