Stillbirth (fetal death)
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 482008 |
Registration status:![]() |
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Definition:![]() | A fetal death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception of 20 or more completed weeks of gestation or of 400 grams or more birthweight. The death is indicated by the fact that after such separation the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. |
Context:![]() | Perinatal statistics. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments:![]() | Terminations of pregnancy performed at gestational ages of 20 or more weeks should be included in perinatal collections and should be recorded either as stillbirths or, in the unlikely event of showing evidence of life, as live births. Fetus papyraceous and fetus compressus are products of conception recognisable as a deceased fetus. These fetal deaths are likely to have occurred before 20 weeks gestation but should be included as stillbirths in perinatal collections if they are recognisable as a fetus and have been expelled or extracted with other products of conception at 20 or more weeks gestational age. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | National Perinatal Data Development Committee |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Has been superseded by Stillbirth (fetal death)
Supersedes Stillbirth (fetal death)
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Metadata items which use this glossary item:![]() | Birth event—birth plurality, code N
Birthweight
Female—parity
Female—parity
Female—parity, total pregnancies N[N]
Female—parity, total pregnancies N[N]
Perinatal DSS 2014-15
Perinatal DSS 2015-16
Perinatal NBEDS 2016-17
Perinatal NBEDS 2017-18
Perinatal NBEDS 2018-19
Perinatal NBEDS 2019–20
Perinatal NBEDS 2020–21
Perinatal NMDS 2014-18
Perinatal NMDS 2018-19
Perinatal NMDS 2019–20
Perinatal NMDS 2020–21
Pregnancy—birth plurality, code N
Product of birth
Product of birth—birthweight
Product of birth—birthweight
Product of birth—birthweight, total grams N[NNN]
Product of birth—birthweight, total grams N[NNN]
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