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1. T & A
acronym for Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy (T & A)
2. Target Hospital
The hospital of primary interest, from a list of 10 hospitals which were analyzed, including: Brandon, Dauphin, Flin Flon, Morden-Winkler, The Pas, Portage, Selkirk, Steinbach, Swan River, and Thompson.
3. Tariff Codes
A tariff code is a specific code used to identify each service provided by a physician or a nurse practitioner as defined in the Physician (Tariff) Manual.
4. Tariff Manual
See Physician Manual.
5. Tariff Rates and Descriptions Data
The Tariff Rates and Descriptions data contains annual updated information from Manitoba Health on the tariff codes and fees that are paid for specific services. This data is related to the tariffs that are found in the
6. Tariffs
A tariff is the fee-schedule (amount paid) for each service, or group of services provided by a physician or a nurse practitioner. See the Tariff Codes glossary term for more information.
7. Teaching Clinic Model of Primary Care
There are three clinics whose primary responsibility is the training of family medicine residents. These clinics are funded through different funding mechanisms due to their mandate for education, with primary care providers being funded through a similar...
8. Teaching Hospitals
Hospitals that are associated with the University of Manitoba Medical School and are thus also used for instructional purposes. The two teaching hospitals in Manitoba are St. Boniface General Hospital and the Health Sciences Centre.
9. Technical Care
One of two key processes of care, it refers to the application of clinical medicine to a personal health problem. It is based upon a theory of function which can be evaluated for efficacy and generally standardized. The other key process is interpersonal ...
10. Technical Efficiency
The lower the cost required to provide an activity or service, the more efficient the mode of delivery.
11. Teen (Mother) at First Birth
Any female that has given birth to her first child at age 19 or younger. Because the age at which a given female first gives birth can never change thereafter, these females are considered to be teens at first birth irrespective of their current age.
12. Teen Birth
The birth of a baby to a female under the age of 20. In Brownell et al. (2012), teen birth was defined as the rate of hospitalizations per 1,000 females 15 to 19 years for live birth (ICD-9-CM V27; ICD-10-CA Z37) over five-year periods.
13. Teen Birth Rate
The teen birth rate was calculated using hospital data by taking the ratio of live births to females aged 15 to 19 years to the total female population of the same age. As with teen pregnancy, teen birth rates were also calculated for 12- to 19-year-old f...
14. Teen Mother
Any female that gives birth at age 19 or younger.
15. Teenage Pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy includes live births, stillbirths, abortions and ectopic pregnancies of women under the age of twenty. Rates of teenage pregnancy are usualluy calculated for females aged 15-19 due to the small number of events in females aged 10-14. ...
16. Teenage Pregnancy Rate
The teen pregnancy rate was calculated using data from hospital records by taking the ratio of all live and stillbirths, abortions and ectopic pregnancies for females aged 15 to 19 years to the total female population of the same age. No adjustment for ag...
17. Telehealth
Telehealth is the process of using information and communications technologies (ICTs) to deliver health information, services and expertise over short and long distances. Telehealth applications are important tools for enhancing health care delivery, part...
18. Temperature Data
see Weather Data.
19. Temporary Resident
concept/Social Determinants of Health-SDOH-Digital Library-Image.jpg A foreign national has temporary resident status in Canada when they have been found to meet...
20. Tenant Management System (TMS)
The data collection and management system used by Manitoba Housing and Community Development to administer the Social Housing Program in Manitoba. The TMS data contains information on all households living in units directly managed by Manitoba Housing. Re...
21. 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...
22. 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.
23. Tertiary Care
Care that requires highly specialized skills, technology, and support services. This care is often only provided in a small number of locations.
24. 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.
25. 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...
26. 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.
27. TFR
acronym for Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
28. 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...
29. Therapeutic Interchange
The substitution of chemically distinct but therapeutically equivalent drugs. Most often involves drugs within the same pharmaceutical class.
30. 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...
31. 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...
32. 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...
33. Tobit Regression
A special type of statistical regression analysis that assumes data are truncated, or censored, above or below certain values.
34. 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).
35. 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...
36. Top-Down Costing
Costing approach that starts at the top with total cost and then allocates it down to a measure of output.
37. 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 ...
38. Total Days of Hospital Care
See Days of Hospital Care.
39. 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.
40. Total Hip Replacement
See Hip Replacement Surgery.
41. 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.
42. Total Knee Replacement
See Knee Replacement Surgery.
43. 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...
44. 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...
45. 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 ...
46. 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.
47. 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...
48. 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...
49. 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.
50. Transfers
Patient transfers between hospitals or other facilities as part of an episode of care.
51. 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.
52. 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...
53. 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...
54. 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...
55. 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 ...
56. 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...
57. 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 ...
58. 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...
59. 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 ...
60. 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...
61. Treatment Prevalence
The term prevalence refers to the proportion of the population that 'has' a given disease at a given time. The administrative data used do not directly indicate who 'has' a disease, but rather who received health services 'treatment' for that disease; tha...
62. Treaty Indian
A person of aboriginal ancestry who holds treaty status under the Federal Indian Act, as identified through the municipality codes indicating the registered reserve.
63. Treaty Status Indian
See Treaty Indian.
64. Triage
The process of selecting and prioritizing patients based on the urgency of their need for care. Commencing 2004/05, patients arriving at a WRHA emergency department or urgent care clinic were triaged using the Canadian Emergency Department Triage & Acuity...
65. Tribal Council (TC)
“For the purpose of accessing Tribal Council Program funding, a Tribal Council is a grouping of bands, (bands as defined by the Indian Act), with common interests who voluntarily join together to provide advisory and/or program services to member bands"...
66. Tribal Council Areas (TCA)
Tribal Council Areas are groupings of First Nation communities affiliated with the seven official Tribal Councils (TCs), as well as Independent and Non-Affiliated First Nation communities. The official TCs include: Dakota Ojibway TC, Interlake Reserves TC...
67. Trim Point
The point after which a length of stay (LOS) is determined to be abnormally long, and any additional days are classified as outlier days.
68. Trimester
"Three months, or one third of the gestational time for pregnancy." (Olds SB et al., 2004)
69. Triple Test
The triple test is a blood test that is offered to all pregnant women in Manitoba through the Manitoba Maternal Serum Screening Programme. The test measures three components in the mother's blood that are made by the baby or the placenta, and the test scr...
70. Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine (TIV)
An immunization against influenza that includes three virus strains: two from the human influenza A subtypes and one from the influenza B lineages. TIV is reformulated annually to compensate for variation in the antigen strains. Please see the
71. TRM
acronym for Total Respiratory Morbidity (TRM)
72. Tuberculosis (TB)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that is acquired through an infection from a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB is highly contagious: it is spread through the air by individuals with infected lungs or throats when they cough, sneeze, or talk. ...
73. Turnover Rate - Family Physicians (FP)
The workforce turnover rate was calculated by adding the number of Family Physicians (FP) new to Winnipeg plus the number of Winnipeg FPs who left each year, divided by the number of FPs who billed Manitoba Health.
74. TURP
acronym for Transurethral Prostatectomy (TURP)
75. Twins
concept/Social Determinants of Health-SDOH-Digital Library-Image.jpg Two children born on the same birth episode to the same mother. For more information, ple...
76. Two Parent Family
concept/Social Determinants of Health-SDOH-Digital Library-Image.jpg Two individuals who have registered their marital union with Manitoba Health and who have...
77. Type I Diabetes Mellitus
The diagnosis-based definition is at least three physician claims for diabetes diagnoses (ICD-9-CM=250: Diabetes mellitus) over 2 years, excluding Treaty First Nations children.
78. Type I Error
A statistical error that produces a false positive result, whereby the test statistic predicts incorrectly a significant difference or correlation between groups. The likelihood of Type I errors can be reduced by using more conservative alpha level (thres...
79. Type II Error
"Being misled by the sample evidence into failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false."
80. Type III Analysis of Effects Test
An unweighted analysis based on the average of centre-specific estimates of test groups in the presence of an interaction (influence) effect between the independent (explanatory) variables. Type III analyses are often used when the effect of one explanato...
81. Type Of Care - Inpatient
For inpatient care, several types of care can be differentiated, including: adult surgical (excluding outpatient surgical care), adult medical, obstetric, psychiatric, pediatric surgical, and pediatric medical.
82. Type Of Care By Physicians
For type of care provided by physicians, this includes: Consultative Care, and Non-Consultative Care.
83. Type of Hospital Care
Defined using Diagnosis Related Group (DRG)™ categories including: surgical, medical, obstetrical, psychiatric and newborn. Surgical and medical cases were further classified as emergent/urgent (admitted as emergency) or scheduled (elective) based o...
84. Type of Referral
Identifies the source of client referral to the Home Care program. Examples of types of referrals include: doctor, hospital, agency, friends or family, or self-referral.
85. Types of Nursing Homes
See Personal Care Home (PCH) Types.
86. Types of Potentially Avoidable Deaths
This indicator sub-divides potentially avoidable deaths into three categories: Deaths due to diseases that are preventable (e.g., vaccine-preventable diseases and skin cancer) Deaths due to diseases that are treatable (...
87. Typical Patient
In case mix classification systems, patients are categorized as typical or atypical based on several criteria. A typical patient is one that has a normal length of stay, whose treatment is completed in a single facility, and whose resource use is relativ...
88. Typical Stay
An inpatient whose stay agrees with the calculated average for a given Case Mix Group (CMG™), Diagnosis Related Group (DRG™), or Refined Diagnosis Related Group (RDRG®).

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