Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard: 4c-Proportion of women who had a vaginal birth who sustained a Grade 3b perineal tear
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | 4c-Proportion of women who had a vaginal birth who sustained a Grade 3b perineal tear |
| METEOR identifier: | 728510 |
| Registration status: |
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| Description: | The proportion of women who had a vaginal birth who sustained a Grade 3b perineal tear. |
| Indicator set: | Clinical care standard indicators: Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 20/04/2021 |
Collection and usage attributes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Population group age from: | 18 yrs or older | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Computation description: | The degree of perineal injury should be classified using the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) classification of perineal tears. RCOG classification of perineal tears
Presented as a percentage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Numerator: | Number of women who sustained a grade 3b perineal tear. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Denominator: | The number of women who had a vaginal birth. Include separations where an outcome of delivery was record using the ICD codes in Table A, and a caesarean delivery was not recorded (Table B). Table A: ICD-10-AM codes for delivery outcome
Table B: ACHI codes for caesarean section
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| Representation class: | Percentage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data type: | Real | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unit of measure: | Person | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format: | N[NN] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reference documents: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care 2021. Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears clinical care standard. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Sydney. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 2015. The management of third- and fourth-degree perineal tears (Green top 29). Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||