Female—parity, total pregnancies N[N]
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Parity |
| METEOR identifier: | 733287 |
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| Definition: | The total number of previous pregnancies experienced by a female that have resulted in a live birth or a stillbirth. |
| Context: | Perinatal |
| Data Element Concept: | Female—parity |
Value domain attributes | ||||||||||
Representational attributes | ||||||||||
| Representation class: | Total | |||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | |||||||||
| Format: | N[N] | |||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 2 | |||||||||
| Supplementary values: |
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| Unit of measure: | Pregnancy | |||||||||
Data element attributes | ||||||||||
Collection and usage attributes | ||||||||||
| Guide for use: | To calculate parity, count all previous pregnancies that resulted in a live birth or a stillbirth of at least 20 weeks gestation or at least 400 grams birthweight. Excluded from the count are:
A primipara (a female giving birth for the first time) has a parity of 0. | |||||||||
| Collection methods: | A pregnancy with multiple fetuses is counted as one pregnancy. | |||||||||
| Comments: | The number of previous pregnancies that resulted in a birth is an important component of the female's reproductive history. Parity may be a risk factor for adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. | |||||||||
Source and reference attributes | ||||||||||
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Data Development Committee | |||||||||
Relational attributes | ||||||||||
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Female—parity, total pregnancies N[N]
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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