National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09—General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2016)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Common name: | General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section. |
Short name: | PI 09—General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2016) |
METEOR identifier: | 613190 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Description: | The proportion of women who gave birth by caesarean section and who had a general anaesthetic. |
Rationale: | This indicator is used to benchmark anaesthetic care in association with caesarean section. |
Indicator set: | National Core Maternity Indicators (2016) Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The proportion of women who gave birth by caesarean section and who had a general anaesthetic. |
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Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of women who gave birth by caesarean section and who had a general anaesthetic. |
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Denominator: | Number of women who gave birth by caesarean section. |
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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 data that are missing, not stated or not interpretable have been excluded from the denominator.
A birth is defined as the event in which a baby comes out of the uterus after a pregnancy of at least 20 weeks gestation or weighing 400 grams or more. Caesarean section is an operative procedure to remove the baby through an incision through the woman’s abdomen and uterus. Included are those women who gave birth by caesarean section. Excluded are those women who gave birth through the vagina. Source of definition: Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Indicator 4.1: General anaesthesia for caesarean section. This ACHS indicator is based on the definition by Women's Healthcare Australasia (WHA) Core Maternity Indicators Project (CMIP). |
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Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN.N] |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09-General anaesthetic for women giving birth by caesarean section (2013) Health!, Superseded 02/02/2016 Has been superseded by National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 09–General anaesthetic for females giving birth by caesarean section, 2018 Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 |