Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 695301 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/12/2018 Indigenous, Standard 02/04/2019 |
| Definition: | The number of births resulting from a single pregnancy. |
| Context: | Perinatal |
Pregnancy—birth plurality
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Pregnancy |
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| Definition: | The period during which a woman carries a developing fetus, normally in the uterus. Pregnancy lasts for approximately 266 days, from conception until the baby is born, or 280 days from the first day of the last menstrual period. During pregnancy menstruation is absent, there may be a great increase in appetite, and the breasts increase in size; the woman may also experience morning sickness. These and other changes brought about by a hormone (progesterone) produced at first by the ovary and later by the placenta. Definite evidence of pregnancy is provided by various pregnancy tests, by the detection of the heartbeat of the fetus, and by ultrasound. |
| Specialisation of: | Life event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australia 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: | Birth plurality |
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| Definition: | The number of births. |
| Property group: | Birth event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Data Development Committee |
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Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Birth event—birth plurality Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Indigenous, Superseded 02/04/2019 |
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Pregnancy—birth plurality, code N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/03/2023 |