Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard: 7a-Proportion of clinicians who provide bereavement care to parents who have experienced a stillbirth who have completed an evidence-based bereavement care professional development program
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 7a-Proportion of clinicians who provide bereavement care to parents who have experienced a stillbirth who have completed an evidence-based bereavement care professional development program |
METEOR identifier: | 766750 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 04/11/2022 |
Description: | Proportion of clinicians who provide bereavement care to parents who have experienced a stillbirth who have completed an evidence-based bereavement care professional development program. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Bereavement care refers to the care provided to parents after perinatal loss to support their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing. For the denominator, 'clinicians who provide bereavement care' predominantly include midwives, general practitioners, obstetricians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and councillors. Local health services are encouraged to provide all clinicians that may be involved in the care of parents who experience a perinatal loss access to relevant training. An example of an evidence-based bereavement care professional development program is the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) and the Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence IMPROVE - IMproving Perinatal Mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education program. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | The number of clinicians in the denominator who have completed an evidence-based bereavement care professional development program. |
Denominator: | The number of clinicians who provide bereavement care to parents who have experienced a stillbirth. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN] |
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 and primary care settings where maternity care is provided. |
Release date: | 01/11/2022 |
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 in Stillbirth, Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand. IMPROVE e-learning and workshops [Internet]. Brisbane: Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth; 2019. Available from: https://stillbirthcre.org.au/about-us/our-work/improve/ |