Birth event—labour onset type

Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METeOR identifier:	269460
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 ACT Health, Final 14/08/2018
Definition:	The manner in which labour started in a birth event.
Context:	Perinatal care
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class:	Birth event
Definition:	The sequence of actions by which a baby and the afterbirth (placenta) are expelled or extracted from the uterus at childbirth. The process usually starts spontaneously about 280 days after conception with onset of labour, but it may be started by artificial means.
Specialisation of:	Life event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	University of Oxford 2002. Concise Colour Medical Dictionary 3rd ed. UK: Oxford University Press
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property:	Labour onset type
Definition:	A descriptor of the manner in which labour commences.
Property group:	Birth event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Birth event—labour onset type Health, Standard 12/12/2018
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Birth event—labour onset type, code N Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 Birth event—labour onset type, code N Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 ACT Health, Final 14/08/2018