Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Common name: | General anaesthetic for females giving birth by caesarean section |
Short name: | PI 09–General anaesthetic for females giving birth by caesarean section, 2018 |
METEOR identifier: | 690168 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 19/06/2019 |
Description: | The proportion of all females who gave birth by caesarean section and had a general anaesthetic. |
Rationale: | This indicator is used to benchmark anaesthetic care in association with caesarean section. |
Indicator set: | National Core Maternity Indicators, 2018 Health, Superseded 19/06/2019 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The number of females who gave birth by caesarean section and had a general anaesthetic, divided by the number of females who gave birth by caesarean section and recorded a non-missing value for general anaesthetic, and multiplied by 100. A birth is defined as an 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. Caesarean section is an operative procedure to remove the baby through an incision through the female's abdomen and uterus. Included are those females who gave birth by caesarean section. Excluded are those females who gave birth through the vagina. |
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Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | The number of females who gave birth by caesarean section and had a general anaesthetic. |
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Denominator: | Number of females who gave birth by caesarean section and recorded a non-missing value for general anaesthetic. |
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Comments: | Data elements are from the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) or have been provided as voluntary non-standardised items by the states and territories. Records with data that are not stated or not interpretable have been excluded from the denominator. Source of definition: Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Indicator 4.1: General anaesthesia for caesarean section. This ACHS indicator is based on the definition by Women's Healthcare Australasia Core Maternity Indicators Project (WHA 2007). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN.N] |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | ACHS (The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, Health Services Research Group, University of Newcastle) 2014. The Australasian Clinical Indicator Report: 2006-2013. 15th edn. Sydney: ACHS. Viewed 9 April 2018, https://www.achs.org.au/media/88679/clinical_indicator_report_2006_2013.pdf. WHA (Women's Healthcare Australasia) 2007. Supporting excellence in maternity care: the core maternity indicators project: findings from the core maternity indicators project. Canberra: WHA. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09—General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2016) Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 Has been superseded by National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09–General anaesthetic for females giving birth by caesarean section, 2019 Health, Superseded 16/09/2020 |