Carolyn DeCoster

Biographic Data

ID5534706
NAMECarolyn DeCoster
GIVEN NAMESCarolyn
FAMILY NAMEDeCoster
SIGNATUREDECOSTER C
AFFILIATIONSManitoba Health
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX0

  • Communicating With the Public, Communicating With Each Other

    Carolyn DeCoster, R J Currie et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999References: 1

    Academics At The Policy Interface Revisiting The Manitoba Centre For Health Policy And Evaluation And Its Population-Based Health Information System

  • Managing Health Services

    Noralou P Roos, Charlyn Black et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999References: 46

    OBJECTIVES: University-based researchers in Manitoba, Canada, have used administrative data routinely collected as part of the national health insurance plan to design an integrated database and population-based health information system. This information system is proving useful to policymakers for answering such questions as: Which populations need more physician services? Which need fewer? Are high-risk populations poorly served? or do they ha…

  • Assessing the Extent to Which Hospitals Are Used for Acute Care Purposes

    Carolyn DeCoster, Sandra Peterson et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999References: 6

    OBJECTIVES: The degree to which Manitobans were appropriately hospitalized for medical conditions was assessed using a retrospective chart review of a sample of patients in 26 hospitals. RESEARCH DESIGN: A standardized set of object-based, nondiagnostic criteria (Inter-Qual) was used by trained abstractors to assess the patient at admission and for each day of stay. RESULTS: A high percentage of admissions and days of care were inappropriate. Ove…

  • Waiting Times for Surgical Procedures

    Carolyn DeCoster, Keumhee C Carrière et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999References: 24

    OBJECTIVES: Polls show that nearly two thirds of Canadians believe that waiting times prior to surgery have increased in recent years. A study was undertaken in Manitoba to determine whether public perceptions about long and increasing waits were valid. RESEARCH DESIGN: Using administrative data, waiting times for 10 types of surgery-ranging from coronary artery bypass surgery and mastectomy to cataract surgery and hernia repairs-were studied ove…

  • Utilization of Nursing Home Resources

    Carolyn DeCoster, Noralou P Roos et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1995

    The total use and cost of nursing homes in Manitoba, for the fiscal year 1991/1992 were analyzed using a population-based health information system. The use of hospital beds by elderly patients for stays of 60 days or more was also analyzed to see if long hospital stays were substituting for nursing home beds. More than one in ten Manitobans 75 years of age and older and one in three who were 85 years and older resided in a nursing home for some …

  • A Population-Based Health Information System

    Noralou P Roos, Charlyn Black et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1995

    The authors introduce the Population Health Information System, its conceptual framework, and the data elements required to implement such a system in other jurisdictions. Among other innovations, the Population Health Information System distinguishes between indicators of health status (outcomes measures) and indicators of need for health care (socioeconomic measures of risk for poor health). The system also can be used to perform needs-based pl…

  • Stability and Trends Over 3 Years of Data

    Norman Frohlich, Trevor Markesteyn et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1995

    Because the health status of a population does not usually respond immediately to interventions, whether social or medical, the ability to analyze change over time is important. Therefore, patterns of change and stability in health status and health care use of Manitoba residents during a 3-year period from 1990 to 1992 were analyzed using the Population-based Health Information System. This article presents summary findings and discusses methodo…