Maternity model of care—routine relocation for intrapartum care and birth indicator, yes/no code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Routine relocation for intrapartum care and birth indicator
Synonymous names:	Planned transfer for birth indicator
METEOR identifier:	562432
Registration status:	Health, Standard 14/05/2015
Definition:	An indicator of whether a maternity model of care requires women to be routinely relocated from their community to another location prior to labour for intrapartum care and birth, as represented by a code.
Context:	Used in maternal and perinatal healthcare settings.
Data Element Concept:	Maternity model of care—routine relocation for intrapartum care and birth 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:

This data element refers to planned relocation for all women prior to labour and not just for women who require a higher-level of care for birth or in an emergency.

CODE 1 Yes
This code is to be used if the intention of the model of care is that all women cared for in the model require routine relocation from their communities to another location prior to labour for intrapartum care and birth. While some women may give birth prior to relocation (unplanned), this is not the intention of the model. Do not use this code if the model of care only requires transfer of some women with increased risk factors to attend a hospital of higher role delineation (for example from a Level 4 facility to a Level 6 facility due to complications of pregnancy).
For example, CODE 1 for any model of care where women who reside in a rural or remote community where there is no accessible appropriate birth facility are routinely relocated to a larger town or city some weeks prior to the birth.

CODE 2 No
This code is to be used for all other models of care where the intention of the model is that women can remain in their general area for birth and the model does not require women to leave their communities prior to the onset of labour for intrapartum care and birth.

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

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +