Female (mother)—postpartum perineal status, code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Perineal status |
| METEOR identifier: | 269939 |
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| Definition: | The state of the perineum following birth, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Perinatal |
| Data Element Concept: | Female (mother)—postpartum perineal status |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | Vaginal tear is included in the same group as 1st degree laceration to be consistent with ICD-10-AM code. Other degrees of laceration are as defined in ICD-10-AM. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | While 4th degree laceration is more severe than an episiotomy it has not been placed in order of clinical significance within the data domain. Instead it has been added to the data domain as a new code rather than modifying the existing order of data domain code values. This is because information gatherers are accustomed to the existing order of the codes. Modifying the existing order may result in miscoding of data. This approach is consistent with established practice in classifications wherein a new data domain identifier (or code number) is assigned to any new value meaning that occurs, rather than assigning this new value domain meaning to an existing data domain identifier. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Comments: | Perineal laceration (tear) may cause significant maternal morbidity in the postnatal period. Episiotomy is an indicator of management during labour and, to some extent, of intervention rates. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes  Perineal status, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.8 KB) No registration statusHas been superseded by Female (mother)—postpartum perineal status, code N[N]
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