Antenatal care visit

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	695204
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 20/11/2019
Definition:	An intentional encounter between a pregnant female and a midwife or clinician to assess and improve maternal and fetal wellbeing throughout pregnancy and prior to labour.
Context:	An antenatal care visit may occur in the following clinical settings: antenatal outpatient clinic specialist outpatient clinic general practitioner surgery obstetrician private room community health centre rural and remote health clinic independent midwife practice setting including home of pregnant female.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Reference documents:	Clinical Practice Improvement Unit 2006. 3Centre consensus guidelines on antenatal care. Melbourne:3Centres Collaboration.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Antenatal care visit Health, Standard 20/11/2019 Tasmanian Health, Standard 03/07/2020 Supersedes Antenatal care visit ACT Health (retired), Candidate 14/08/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 03/07/2020
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Female—number of antenatal care visits Health, Superseded 20/11/2019 Female—number of antenatal care visits, total N[N] Health, Superseded 20/11/2019 Indigenous primary health care: PI13a-Number of regular clients who had their first antenatal care visit within specified periods, 2018-2019 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Indigenous primary health care: PI13a-Number of regular clients who had their first antenatal care visit within specified periods, June 2020 Health, Retired 13/10/2021 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Indigenous primary health care: PI13b-Proportion of regular clients who had their first antenatal care visit within specified periods, 2018-2019 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Indigenous primary health care: PI13b-Proportion of regular clients who had their first antenatal care visit within specified periods, June 2020 Health, Retired 13/10/2021 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Indigenous-specific primary health care: PI13b-Proportion of Indigenous regular clients who have their first antenatal care visit within specified periods, December 2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Number of antenatal care visits Health, Superseded 20/11/2019 Perinatal NBEDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 20/11/2019 Perinatal NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 03/12/2020