Birth event—additional indication for caesarean section

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	680209
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
Definition:	An additional indication for a caesarean section being performed during a birth event.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Birth event
Definition:	The sequence of actions by which a baby and the afterbirth (placenta) are expelled or extracted from the uterus at childbirth. The process usually starts spontaneously about 280 days after conception with onset of labour, but it may be started by artificial means.
Specialisation of:	Life event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	University of Oxford 2002. Concise Colour Medical Dictionary 3rd ed. UK: Oxford University Press

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:	Additional indication for caesarean section
Definition:	An indication for a caesarean section being performed to birth a baby, that is secondary to the main indication but contributes to the clinician's decision to perform the caesarean section.
Property group:	Birth event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Supersedes Birth event—additional indication for caesarean section Health, Superseded 02/08/2017 Has been superseded by Birth event—additional indication for caesarean section Health, Standard 12/12/2018 Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/11/2023
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Birth event—additional indication for caesarean section, code N[N] Health, Superseded 12/12/2018