Term: Home Care Use

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2007-09-26

Definition:

Describes four measures related to Home Care utilization: Open Cases, Closed Cases, New Cases, and Average Length of Home Care Case or Average Length of Stay (LOS).

Related terms 

• Average Length of Stay (ALOS)
• Closed Cases
• Home Care
• New Cases
• Open Cases
• Resource Use

References 

• Martens PJ, Fransoo R, McKeen N, The Need to Know Team, Burland E, Jebamani L, Burchill C, De Coster C, Ekuma O, Prior H, Chateau D, Robinson R, Metge C. Patterns of Regional Mental Illness Disorder Diagnoses and Service Use in Manitoba: A Population-Based Study. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2004. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Martens PJ, Fransoo R, The Need to Know Team, Burland E, Jebamani L, Burchill C, Black C, Dik N, MacWilliam L, Derksen S, Walld R, Steinbach C, Dahl M. The Manitoba RHA Indicators Atlas: Population-Based Comparison of Health and Health Care Use. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2003. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Peterson S, Shapiro E, Roos NP. Regional variation in home care use in Manitoba. Can J Aging 2005;24 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):69-80. [Abstract] (View)