Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 300014 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 02/08/2017 |
| Definition: | Presenting part of the fetus at birth. |
| Context: | Perinatal statistics: Presentation types other than vertex are associated with higher rates of caesarean section, instrumental delivery, perinatal mortality and neonatal morbidity. |
Birth event—birth presentation
Data Element Concept Attributes
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: | Birth presentation |
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| Definition: | Presenting part of the fetus (at lower segment of uterus). |
| Property group: | Birth event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Data Development Committee |
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Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Birth event—birth presentation Health, Superseded 06/09/2006 Has been superseded by Birth event—birth presentation Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 |
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Birth event—birth presentation, code N Health, Superseded 02/08/2017 |