National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09-General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2013)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Common name: | General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section. |
| Short name: | PI 09-General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2013) |
| METEOR identifier: | 557095 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 02/02/2016 |
| Description: | The proportion of women who gave birth by caesarean section and who had a general anaesthetic. |
| Rationale: | This indicator is used to benchmark anaesthetic care in association with caesarean section. |
| Indicator set: | National Core Maternity Indicators (2013) Health, Superseded 02/02/2016 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | The proportion of women who gave birth by caesarean section and who had a general anaesthetic. |
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| Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | Number of women who gave birth by caesarean section and who had a general anaesthetic. |
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| Denominator: | Number of women who gave birth by caesarean section. |
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| Comments: | Data elements are from the Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS) or have been provided as voluntary non-standardised items by the states and territories. Records with data that are missing, not stated or not interpretable have been included in the denominator. A birth is defined as the event in which a baby comes out of the uterus after a pregnancy of least 20 weeks gestation or weighing 400 grams or more. Caesarean section is an operative procedure to remove the baby through a cut through the woman’s abdomen and uterus. Included are those women who gave birth by caesarean section. Excluded are those who gave birth through the vagina. Source of definition: Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS) indicator 4.1, General anaesthesia for caesarean section. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | N[NN.N] |
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| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09—General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2016) Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |