Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard: 5b-Median time from when women report that they first noticed a change in fetal movements to when they contacted a clinician or healthcare service
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 5b-Median time from when women report that they first noticed a change in fetal movements to when they contacted a clinician or healthcare service |
METEOR identifier: | 766722 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 04/11/2022 |
Description: | Median time from when women report that they first noticed a change in fetal movements to when they contacted a clinician or healthcare service. |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation: | Median time (in hours) from when women report that they first noticed a change in fetal movements to when they contacted a clinician or healthcare service. The median value corresponds to the middle observation in an ordered list. To calculate the median, the data must first be ranked (sorted in ascending order). The position of the median is: {(n + 1) ÷ 2}th value Where n is the number of values in a set of data. |
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Comments: | This indicator is based on an indicator from the Safer Baby Bundle. Further details about the Safer Baby Bundle can be found at https://stillbirthcre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SBB-Handbook_Final-1.pdf |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Median |
Data type: | Time period |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | NNNN |
Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | These indicators are for local quality improvement. Monitoring the implementation of the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard (ACSQHC, 2022) will assist in meeting some of the requirements of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (ACSQHC, 2021). |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Not applicable |
Accountability: | Not applicable |
Other issues caveats: | Applicable Settings: Hospitals where maternity care is delivered. Maternal reporting of decreased fetal movements (DFM) has been found to be associated with stillbirth and other adverse perinatal outcomes. Women should be reminded at each scheduled and unscheduled antenatal visit from 28 weeks’ gestation of the importance of maternal awareness of fetal movements and to seek clinical advice immediately if they notice a change in the frequency, strength or pattern of fetal movements, particularly decreases in movement. |
Release date: | 05/11/2022 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2022 Centre of Research Excellence Stillbirth. Safer Baby Bundle Handbook and Resource Guide: Working together to reduce stillbirth. Queensland: Centre of Research Excellence Stillbirth; 2019 |