National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 15—Women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section (2016)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Common name: | Women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
Short name: | PI 15—Women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section (2016) |
METEOR identifier: | 613197 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Description: | The proportion of women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
Rationale: | The indicator is used to benchmark practice for vaginal birth following caesarean section. |
Indicator set: | National Core Maternity Indicators (2016) Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The proportion of women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
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Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | The number of women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
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Denominator: | The number of women having their second birth whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
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Comments: | Data elements are from the Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS). Records with data that are missing, not stated or not interpretable have been excluded from the denominator. A birth is defined as the event in which a baby comes out of the uterus after a pregnancy of at least 20 weeks gestation or weighing 400 grams or more. Women included are those who are having a singleton for their second birth and whose first birth was by caesarean section. Women excluded are those whose second birth is a multiple birth, those who are not having their second birth, and those who are having their second birth and whose first birth was a vaginal delivery. |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 15–Females having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section, 2018 Health, Superseded 19/06/2019 |