Maternity model of care—profession of designated maternity carer, code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Profession of designated maternity carer |
Synonymous names: | Profession of lead maternity carer; Profession of maternity care co-ordinator; Profession of primary carer; Profession of named carer |
METEOR identifier: | 562404 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |
Definition: | The profession of the maternity health care provider who is acting as the designated maternity carer in a model of care, as represented by a code |
Context: | Used in maternal and perinatal healthcare settings. |
Data Element Concept: | Maternity model of care—profession of designated maternity carer |
Value Domain: | Maternity profession code N[N] |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The designated maternity carer may also be known as the maternity care co-ordinator, primary or lead carer or named carer within a model of care and is the profession of the maternity care provider who is responsible for co-ordinating the maternity care for a woman. In some cases this may not be an individual but may be a multi-disciplinary team or a shared care arrangement. The designated maternity carer may not always be the most senior clinician involved in the care of women in the model. For example, an antenatal clinic in a public hospital may have midwives conducting the antenatal visits and providing the majority of care for the women attending. An obstetrician may be available onsite for the midwives to consult with and refer women to when required and is the more senior clinician supervising the clinic, however the value for this data element would be recorded as CODE 4 Midwife – public. Restrictions on values: The following codes are not permissible values for this data element: CODE 9 Aboriginal health practitioner CODE 14 Perinatal mental health worker CODE 15 Other allied health practitioner CODE 16 Medical specialist other than obstetric CODE 17 Public hospital medical officer |
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Collection methods: | Data are gathered using the Maternity Care Classification System (MaCCS) data collection questionnaire on an annual basis by every maternity service when classifying their models of care or when a new model of care is introduced. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit |
Origin: | National Maternity Data Development Project (AIHW and NPESU), Maternity Care Classification System subproject. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Maternity model of care—profession of collaborative maternity carer, code N[N] Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Maternity model of care NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 DSS specific information: If the value for this data element is "CODE 12 Shared Care" you must also record the values for the professions involved in the shared care in the data element Maternity model of care—profession of collaborative maternity carer, code N[N]. If the value for this data element is "CODE 13 Multidisciplinary team" you must also record the values for the professions involved in the team in the data element Maternity model of care—profession of collaborative maternity carer, code N[N].
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