Birth event—type of analgesia administered

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	471865
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
Definition:	The type of analgesia administered to the woman during a birth event.
Context:	Perinatal statistics

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Birth event
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 analgesia administered
Definition:	The type of analgesia administered to an individual.
Property group:	Service provision event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Origin:	Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary 30th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders

Data element concept attributes

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

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Supersedes Birth event—analgesia administered Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 Has been superseded by Birth event—type of analgesia administered Health, Superseded 03/12/2020
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Birth event—type of analgesia administered, code N[N] Health, Superseded 12/12/2018