Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 696197 |
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| Definition: | The manner in which labour started in a birth event. |
| Context: | Perinatal |
Birth event—labour onset type
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Birth event |
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| Definition: | The sequence of actions by which a baby and the placenta are expelled or extracted from the female's 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. The process ends upon complete expulsion or extraction of the baby and the placenta. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | University of Oxford 2002. Concise Colour Medical Dictionary 3rd edn. UK: Oxford University Press. |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Labour onset type |
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| Definition: | A descriptor of the manner in which labour commences. |
| Property group: | Birth event |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Birth event—labour onset type
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Birth event—labour onset type, code N
Birth event—labour onset type, code N
Birth event—labour onset type, code N
Birth event—labour onset type, code N
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