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| Abortion/Aborted | Includes mothers for whom the pregnancy has terminated
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| Admitted after Delivery | Includes mothers for who the pregnancy terminated before reaching the hospital, regardless of whether the infant is liveborn or is a fetal death.
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| Ancillary service | Tests, procedures, and services, generally performed on an outpatient basis.
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| Anesthesia Death | Death caused by an anesthetic agent.
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| Autopsy | Inspection and partial dissection of a dead body to learn the cause of death and the nature and extent of disease
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| Available for Hospital Autopsy | The body of a current or former hospital patient that has been transported to the appropriate facility for autopsy
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| Average daily inpatient Census (Average Daily Census) | Average number of inpatients peresent each day for a given period of time.
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| Bar chart | Bars (rectangles) extend horizontally.
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| Bed Capacity | The number of beds that a health care facillity was designed and built to house.
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| categorical Data | Data that can be sorted into a category. It includes nominal, ordinal, intervalk and ratio data.
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| census | Count; an official count of people
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| Chart | A graphic presentation illustrating data using only one quantitative coordinate. the most common charts are column, bar, line, and pie charts
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| Column Chart | Bars (rectangles) extend vertically.
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| Community-Acquired infection | An infection that presents itself within 72 hours of admission to the hospital
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| Comorbidity | A preexisting condition that will, because of its presence with a principal diagnosis, increase the stay at least one day in 75 % of cases.
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| comparison Bar/Column Chart | Two or more sets of data are plotted side by side or stacked on top of each other (stack bar or percent stack bar).
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| Comparison Line Chart | plots more than one set of data on the same chart
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| Daily Inpatient Census (DIPC) | the number of patients present at the census-taking time each day plus any inpatients who were admitted and discharged (A&) after the census-taking time th eprevious day.
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| Day on leave of Absence | A day occurring after the admission and prior to the discharge of a hospital inpatient during which the patient is not present at census-taking time because he/she is on leave of absence from the hospital.
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| Delivered in the Hospital | Includes mothers for whom the pregnancy has terminated in the hospital, regardless of whether the infant is live born or is a fetal death.
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| Delivery | Expelling of a product of conception or having it removed from the body. Multiple births are considered a single delivery. A delivery may include either a live infant or a dead fetus.
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| Descriptive Statistics | Data that describe a population (group) without drawing conclusions about a larger group.
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| Direct maternal Death | Death directly related to pregnancy.
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| Discrete Data | data that represent distinct values or observations and contain only finite numbers
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| Frequency Distribution | Data organized into classes or categories.
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| Frequency Distribution Table | Table of the data in a frequency distribution.
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| Frequency Polygon | similar to a lline chart but with both ends of the distribution connected to the baseline at the 0 frequency level.
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