National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 07–Non-instrumental vaginal birth for selected females giving birth for the first time, 2023
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Common name: | Non-instrumental vaginal birth for selected females giving birth for the first time |
Short name: | PI 07–Non-instrumental vaginal birth for selected females giving birth for the first time, 2023 |
METEOR identifier: | 772615 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 14/07/2023 |
Description: | The proportion of selected females giving birth for the first time who gave birth by non-instrumental vaginal birth. |
Rationale: | This indicator is used to benchmark practice. |
Indicator set: | National Core Maternity Indicators, 2023 Health, Standard 14/07/2023 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | 20 years |
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Population group age to: | 34 years |
Computation description: | The number of selected females giving birth for the first time who gave birth by non-instrumental vaginal birth, divided by all selected females, and multiplied by 100. Selected females criteria: Females included are those who gave birth for the first time and met all of the following criteria:
Excluded are those females who had given birth prior to the current birth or who did not meet the selection criteria. A birth is defined as the complete expulsion or extraction from a female, of a product of conception of 20 or more completed weeks of gestation or of 400 grams or more birthweight. A non-instrumental vaginal birth is one in which the baby is born through the vagina without the assistance of instruments (vacuum or forceps). |
Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | The number of selected females giving birth for the first time who gave birth by non-instrumental vaginal birth. |
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Denominator: | All selected females. |
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Comments: | Data elements are from the Perinatal National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) or have been provided as voluntary non-standardised items by the states and territories. Records with a permissible value have been included in the denominator. For Tasmania prior to 2012, presentations via caesarean births were not reported by hospitals still using paper-based forms. Where a caesarean section occurred the presentation was recorded as 'Not stated'. Presentations via caesarean births was included in the paper-based form from 1 January 2013. As a result, Tasmania can only be reported 2013 onwards for selected females. Data for parity were not available from Victoria in 2009. As a result 2009 data for selected females cannot be reported for Victoria. In 2022, the selected females criteria were updated to revise gestational age at birth range to between 37 and 40 completed weeks gestation (previously between 37 and 41 completed weeks gestation). Source of definition: Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Indicator 1.1: Selected women giving birth for the first time who have a spontaneous vaginal birth. The ACHS defines a spontaneous vaginal birth as a vaginal birth, regardless of onset of labour, which is not assisted by forceps or vacuum and is not a vaginal breech delivery. This ACHS indicator is based on the definition by Women's Healthcare Australasia Core Maternity Indicators Project (WHA 2007). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN.N] |
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Reporting requirements: | No formal reporting requirements |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Accountability: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | ACHS (The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards) 2021. The Australasian Clinical Indicator Report: 2013-2020. 22nd edn. Sydney: ACHS. Viewed 08 April 2022, https://www.achs.org.au/our-services/pos/previous-acir-publications. WHA (Women's Healthcare Australasia) 2007. Supporting excellence in maternity care: the core maternity indicators project: findings from the core maternity indicators project. Canberra: WHA. |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 07–Non-instrumental vaginal birth for selected females giving birth for the first time, 2022 Health, Superseded 14/07/2023 Has been superseded by National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 07–Non-instrumental vaginal birth for selected females giving birth for the first time, 2024 Health, Recorded 21/02/2024 |