Analgesia

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	696178
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 03/12/2020
Definition:	An analgesic agent or technique administered to a female to relieve the pain of labour without causing loss of consciousness.
Context:	Perinatal

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Anaesthesia Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Supersedes Analgesia ACT Health (retired), Candidate 14/08/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016 Has been superseded by Analgesia during birth event Health, Standard 03/12/2020
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Birth event—analgesia administered indicator Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Birth event—analgesia administered indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Birth event—type of analgesia administered Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Birth event—type of analgesia administered, code N[N] Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Perinatal NBEDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 20/11/2019 Perinatal NBEDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Perinatal NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Perinatal NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Type of labour analgesia administered code N[N] Health, Superseded 03/12/2020