Maternity model of care—target group indicator, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Target group indicator
METEOR identifier:	558051
Registration status:	Health, Standard 14/05/2015
Definition:	An indicator of whether a particular maternity model of care is predominantly targeted at a specific section of women who share a common characteristic or set of characteristics, as represented by a code.
Context:	Used in maternal and perinatal healthcare settings.
Data Element Concept:	Maternity model of care—target group indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Boolean

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Some models of care are designed for specific groups of women based on a set of agreed common criteria and may restrict access to women not meeting this criteria. These restrictions may be based on geographical area, risk factors, ethnic, cultural or social groups or medical or obstetric conditions. In some cases, a model of care may not have any access restrictions but will still predominantly target a particular group of women. In both of these cases a value of "Yes" should be used.

If a model of care is available to all women without any restrictions then a value of "No" should be used.

Collection methods:

Data are gathered using the Maternity Care Classification System (MaCCS) data collection questionnaire on an annual basis by every maternity service when classifying their models of care or when a new model of care is introduced.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit

Origin:

National Maternity Data Development Project (AIHW and NPESU), Maternity Care Classification System subproject.

Relational attributes

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