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Asthma


A common, chronic inflammatory disease of the air passages that presents as episodes of wheezing, breathlessness and chest tightness due to widespread narrowing of the airways and obstruction of airflow.
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occasion of service


Occurs when a patient receives some form of service from a functional unit of a hospital, but is not admitted.
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overcrowding


Where a dwelling requires one or more additional bedrooms to adequately house its inhabitants, according to the Canadian National Occupancy Standard
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private hospital


A privately owned and operated institution, catering for patients who are treated by a doctor of their own choice. Patients are charged fees for accommodation and other services provided by the hospital and relevant medical and allied health practitioners. The term includes private free-standing day hospital facilities
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abstainer


Never consumed a full serve of alcohol.
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acute


Coming on sharply and often brief, intense and severe.
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Acute coronary syndrome


Describes an acute myocardial infarction
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acute hospitals


Public and private hospitals that provide services mainly to admitted patients with acute or temporary ailments. The average length of stay is relatively short.
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Acute myocardial infarction


Term still commonly used to mean a heart attack, but more correctly refers only to those heart attacks that have caused some death of heart muscle.
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ADMINISTRATIVE DATA COLLECTION


A data set that results from the information collected for the purposes of delivering a service or paying the provider of the service. This type of collection is usually complete (that is, all in-scope events are collected), but it may not be fully suitable for population-level analysis because the data are collected primarily for an administrative [..]
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