Birth event—intended setting of birth, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Intended place of birth |
| METEOR identifier: | 668857 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 |
| Definition: | The intended place of birth at the onset of labour, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Perinatal |
| Data Element Concept: | Birth event—intended setting of birth |
| Value Domain: | Birth setting code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Hospital, excluding birth centre |
| 2 | Birth centre, attached to hospital | |
| 3 | Birth centre, free standing | |
| 4 | Home | |
| 8 | Other | |
| Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | CODE 4 Home Reserved for planned home births. CODE 8 Other Record for home births without a midwife or other medical professional in attendance (free births) or a community health centre. |
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| Comments: | Women who plan to give birth in birth centres or at home usually have different risk factors for outcome compared to those who plan to give birth in hospitals. Women who are transferred to hospital after the onset of labour have increased risks of intervention and adverse outcomes. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Data Development Committee |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Birth event—setting of birth (intended), code N Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Has been superseded by Birth event—intended setting of birth, code N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Tasmanian Health, Standard 09/11/2023 See also Birth event—actual setting of birth, code N Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 |