Birth event—type of anaesthesia administered

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	466092
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
Definition:	The type of anaesthesia administered to a woman during a birth event.
Context:	Perinatal statistics

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Birth event
METEOR identifier:	268965
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015
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:	Type of anaesthesia administered
METEOR identifier:	466089
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 03/12/2020
Definition:	The type of anaesthesia administered to an individual.
Property group:	Service provision event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Origin:	Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 2011

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Supersedes Birth event—anaesthesia administered Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 Has been superseded by Birth event—type of anaesthesia administered Health, Superseded 03/12/2020
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Birth event—type of anaesthesia administered, code N[N] Health, Superseded 12/12/2018