Stillbirth (fetal death)

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	733271
Registration status:	Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/12/2021
Definition:	A fetal death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception of 20 or more completed weeks of gestation or of 400 grams or more birthweight. The death is indicated by the fact that after such separation the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles.
Context:	Perinatal

Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	Terminations of pregnancy performed at gestational ages of 20 or more weeks should be included in perinatal collections and should be recorded either as stillbirths or, in the unlikely event of showing evidence of life, as live births. Fetus papyraceous and fetus compressus are products of conception recognisable as a deceased fetus. These fetal deaths are likely to have occurred before 20 weeks gestation but should be included as stillbirths in perinatal collections if they are recognisable as a fetus and have been expelled or extracted with other products of conception at 20 or more weeks gestational age.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Live birth Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/12/2021 Supersedes Stillbirth (fetal death) ACT Health (retired), Candidate 14/08/2018 Health, Superseded 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Birth status code N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Birthweight Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Incomplete 13/04/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/12/2021 Female—parity Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Tasmanian Health, Standard 11/06/2021 Female—parity, total pregnancies N[N] Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Tasmanian Health, Standard 11/06/2021 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS December 2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Live birth Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/12/2021 Perinatal death Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Perinatal Mortality NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Perinatal NBEDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Perinatal NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Perinatal NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Perinatal NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Pregnancy—birth plurality, code N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Product of birth Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Product of birth—birthweight Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Product of birth—birthweight, code N Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 Product of birth—birthweight, total grams N[NNN] Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Product of birth—head circumference, total centimetres NN[N].N Health, Standard 03/12/2020 Product of birth—perinatal death type, code N Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Product of birth—timing of fetal death Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Product of birth—timing of fetal death, code N Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Timing of fetal death Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Timing of fetal death code N Health, Standard 17/12/2021