Maternity model of care—group session status, individual/group session descriptor code N
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Individual or group care |
| METEOR identifier: | 558764 |
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| Definition: | A descriptor of whether the model of maternity care offers antenatal and/or postnatal care in individual or group sessions, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Used in maternal and perinatal healthcare settings. |
| Data Element Concept: | Maternity model of care—group session status |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit | ||||||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |||||||||
| Guide for use: | Some models of care offer antenatal and/or postnatal care in group sessions, such as the Centering Pregnancy® model. Group sessions must include both education and clinical care in a group setting and does not refer to "parenting classes" or "antenatal education classes" only. Group sessions are sessions that consist of two or more women. CODE 3 Combination of individual and group sessions Use this code when a model of care offers a combination of individual sessions and group sessions. | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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