National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 15—Women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section (2016)
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Common name:![]() | Women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
Short name:![]() | PI 15—Women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section (2016) |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 613197 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Description:![]() | The proportion of women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
Rationale:![]() | The indicator is used to benchmark practice for vaginal birth following caesarean section. |
Indicator set:![]() | National Core Maternity Indicators (2016) Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description:![]() | The proportion of women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
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Computation:![]() | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator:![]() | The number of women having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
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Denominator:![]() | The number of women having their second birth whose first birth was by caesarean section. |
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Comments:![]() | Data elements are from the Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS). 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. Women included are those who are having a singleton for their second birth and whose first birth was by caesarean section. Women excluded are those whose second birth is a multiple birth, those who are not having their second birth, and those who are having their second birth and whose first birth was a vaginal delivery. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Percentage |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Person |
Format:![]() | N[NN.N] |
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Related metadata references:![]() | Has been superseded by National Core Maternity Indicators: PI 15–Females having their second birth vaginally whose first birth was by caesarean section, 2018 Health!, Superseded 19/06/2019 |