Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation: Caesarean section for selected women giving birth for the first time, 2012-2014
Indicator Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Caesarean section for selected women giving birth for the first time, 2012-2014 |
METEOR identifier: | 639073 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 07/06/2017 |
Description: | Number of women who met the selection criteria* who gave birth by caesarean section, age standardised. Data are disaggregated by the area in which the mother lives. |
Rationale: | This indicator is used to benchmark practice. |
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Population group age from: | Females 20-34 years of age | ||||||||||||
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Computation description: | Number of selected women giving birth for the first time who gave birth by caesarean section. * Selection criteria: Women included are those who gave birth for the first time and met all of the following criteria:
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Computation: | 1,000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) | ||||||||||||
Numerator: | Number of selected women giving birth for the first time who gave birth by caesarean section. | ||||||||||||
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Denominator: | All selected women 2012-2014 | ||||||||||||
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Disaggregation: | SA3 by :
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Cells of less than 5 have been suppressed. This is the lowest level of suppression that all states and territories have agreed to for the release of data from the National Perinatal Data Collection. Crude rates have been suppressed where the denominator is less than 100, for reliability purposes. The corresponding age-standardised rate has also been suppressed in these cases. In addition, age-standardised rates have been suppressed where the denominator for any age-stratified groups have fewer than 10 individuals. | ||||||||||||
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Representation class: | Rate | ||||||||||||
Data type: | Integer | ||||||||||||
Unit of measure: | Episode | ||||||||||||
Format: | N[NNNN] | ||||||||||||
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Methodology: | Data elements are from the Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS) or have been provided as voluntary non-standardised items by the states and territories. Records with data that are missing, not stated or not interpretable have been excluded from the denominator. A birth is defined as the event in which a baby comes out of the uterus after a pregnancy of at least 20 weeks gestation or weighing 400 grams or more. Caesarean section is an operative procedure to remove the baby through an incision through a woman’s abdomen and uterus. Gestational age is a clinical measure of the duration of the pregnancy. For the National Perinatal Data Collection gestational age is reported as completed weeks. Patient elected accommodation status is available from all jurisdictions from 2006. Source of definition: Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Indicator 1.4: Selected women giving birth for the first time undergoing caesarean section. This ACHS indicator is based on the definition by Women's Healthcare Australasia (WHA) Core Maternity Indicators Project (CMIP). | ||||||||||||
Reporting requirements: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation | ||||||||||||
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | ||||||||||||
Accountability: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | ||||||||||||
Release date: | 07/06/2017 | ||||||||||||
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |