Maternity model of care—expected length of time for postnatal visits in a residential setting, code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Expected length of time for postnatal visits in a residential setting |
Synonymous names: | Length of time for postnatal home visits |
METEOR identifier: | 558784 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |
Definition: | The expected length of time a model of maternity care provides access to postnatal visits in a residential setting, as represented by a code. |
Context: | Used in maternal and perinatal healthcare settings. |
Data Element Concept: | Maternity model of care—expected length of time for postnatal visits in a residential setting |
Value Domain: | Length of time code N[N] |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Code the appropriate value that represents the length of time that a model of care provides the majority of women with access to postnatal visits by a maternity care health professional in a residential setting such as the woman’s own home, a hotel or hostel. These visits may be provided by the designated maternity carer who has provided care throughout the antenatal and/or intrapartum period or the visits may be provided as part of a “domiciliary” or “early discharge” midwifery home visiting program that is separate to the model of care the woman had been in up until she gave birth. |
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Collection methods: | Data are gathered using the Maternity Care Classification System (MaCCS) data collection questionnaire on an annual basis by every maternity service when classifying their models of care or when a new model of care is introduced. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit |
Origin: | National Maternity Data Development Project (AIHW and NPESU), Maternity Care Classification System subproject. |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Maternity model of care NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Conditional obligation: Reporting of this data element is conditional upon the reported value of Maternity model of care - postnatal visits in a residential setting indicator, yes/no code N being Code 1 Yes. |