Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| Synonymous names: | Analgesia administered for labour |
| METEOR identifier: | 292743 |
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| Definition: | Analgesia administered to the woman to relieve pain for labour. |
| Context: | Perinatal statistics |
Birth event—analgesia administered
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Birth event |
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| Definition: | The sequence of actions by which a baby and the afterbirth (placenta) are expelled or extracted from the uterus at childbirth. The process usually starts spontaneously about 280 days after conception with onset of labour, but it may be started by artificial means. |
| Specialisation of: | Life event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | University of Oxford 2002. Concise Colour Medical Dictionary 3rd ed. UK: Oxford University Press |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Analgesia administered |
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| Definition: | An agent given to alleviate pain without causing loss of consciousness. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Origin: | Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary 30th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Birth event—analgesia administered
Has been superseded by Birth event—type of analgesia administered
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Birth event—analgesia administered, code N
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