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Adjusted Clinical Group® (ACG®) - Relative Cost Weights
(100 points) (Concept) This concept describes the development and use of a costing method using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups® (ACG®) system and Relative Cost Weights. NOTE: For an overview of general costing methods (sources of data, types of ... |
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Ambulatory Visits
(100 points) (Concept) This concept provides information on the current definition and method used at MCHP for defining ambulatory visits by a physician, based on data contained in the MCHP Data Repository. The methodology for identifying ambulatory visits underwent a ma... |
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Undercounting Hospital Visits
(100 points) (Concept) Ambulatory visits definition has been simplified and can be generated using a SAS macro on MCHP systems. Most of this concept is retained for historical purposes. See the Ambulatory Visits - Physicians conce... |
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Amenable Hospitalizations
(100 points) (Concept) A list of medical conditions that a panel of physicians have agreed should NOT result in untimely death are identified as conditions amenable (responsive) to medical treatment. The "conditions" chosen were intended to be used NOT to provide a defini... |
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Avoidable Hospitalizations
(100 points) (Concept) Avoidable Hospitalizations are a set of 12 conditions for which hospitalization can be avoided if ambulatory care is provided in a timely and effective manner. (Weissman et al. 1992.) The conditions which are included in the grouping were those agre... |
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Chronic Disease Hospitalizations
(100 points) (Concept) For adults in the mid-years of life, the main causes of death and disability are chronic diseases including asthma, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. For the elderly, the leading cause of death and disability are emphysema, heart disease, stroke,... |
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Arthritis - Measuring Prevalence
(100 points) (Concept) Arthritis is a group of conditions that affect the health of the bone joints in the body. One in three adult Americans suffer from some form of arthritis and the disease affects about twice as many women as men. Arthritic diseases include rheumatoid... |
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Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) / Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) - Measuring Prevalence
(100 points) (Concept) Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), or atherosclerotic heart disease, is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that suppl... |
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Diabetes - Measuring Prevalence
(100 points) (Concept) A chronic condition in which the pancreas no longer produces enough insulin (Type I Diabetes) or when cells stop responding to the insulin that is produced (Type II Diabetes), so that glucose in the blood cannot be absorbed into the cells of the bod... |
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Hypertension - Measuring Prevalence
(100 points) (Concept) This concept contains information on how hypertension has been defined in MCHP research in order to measure the prevalence of this medical condition. This includes the data sources that are used, the ICD codes that define this condition, and the an... |
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Stroke - Measuring Prevalence
(100 points) (Concept) A stroke occurs when there is a sudden death of brain cells due to a lack of oxygen when the blood flow to the brain is impaired by blockage or rupture of an artery to the brain. Symptoms of a stroke depend on the area of the brain affected. The mos... |
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Case Mix Groups (CMG™) - Overview
(100 points) (Concept) This concept describes the use of a patient classification system called Case Mix Groups (CMG™) and their inclusion in hospital discharge abstract data held in the Data Repository at MCHP. Associated with CMGs are a day surgery classification sy... |
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Case Mix Groups (CMGs™) versus Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs™)
(100 points) (Concept) 1. Case Mix: Both are patient classification systems that provide ways of describing the types of patients a hospital treats (its case mix).group cases into manageable number of meaningful patient categories patients with... |
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Charlson Comorbidity Index
(100 points) (Concept) This concept contains information on the Charlson Comorbidity Index including: a basic description of the Charlson Comorbidity Index, how the Index is used at MCHP, and a brief historical perspective on the development and changes to the Index over... |
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Measures of Comorbidity
(100 points) (Concept) This concept identifies and briefly describes the measures of comorbidity investigated in the Cancer Data Linkage in Manitoba: Expanding the Infrastructure for Research deliverable by Lix et al. (2016). Some of these measures... |
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Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs™) - Overview
(100 points) (Concept) Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs™) is an American patient classification system that describes the types of patients treated by a hospital (i.e. its case mix). The DRGs™ work by grouping the 10,000+ ICD-9-CM codes into a more manageable... |
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Income Quintiles Based on the 1996 Census
(6 points) (Concept) The 1996 census was released by the Data Liberation Initiative in stages starting in October 1997 and completing in July 1998. The component reporting sources of income, family and household income at the enumeration area level was released on June ... |
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Birth Cohort Registry - Methodology
(2 points) (Concept) This concept provides the methodology, including SAS code (internal access only), for the development of the birth cohort registry at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). Issues associated with creating birth cohorts are also discuss... |
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Maternal and Newborn Health Status Indicators
(2 points) (Concept) This concept identifies and lists the maternal and newborn health status indicators presented in the Perinatal Services and Outcomes in Manitoba deliverable by Heaman et al. (2012). The report focuses on women giving birth in Manitoba... |
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Child Health Indicators (2008)
(2 points) (Concept) Measuring health is a very complex issue -- there is no quick and easy way to say whether a group of children are healthy. So, in our Manitoba Child Health Atlas Update (Brownell et al. 2008) we used measures that are thought to indic... |
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