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National Core Maternity Indicators 2017: summary report

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Release Date: 18 Sep 2019
Topic: Mothers & babies

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The National Core Maternity Indicators (NCMIs) present information on measures of clinical activity and outcomes to assist in improving the quality of maternity services in Australia by establishing baseline data for monitoring and evaluating practice change. These indicators cover data for the majority of women who gave birth in Australia from 2004 to 2017 and are grouped into 3 broad topic areas—antenatal period, labour and birth and birth outcomes.

This summary report is designed to accompany National Core Maternity Indicators 2017.

  • ISBN: 978-1-76054-609-0
  • Cat. no: PER 104
  • Pages: 22
Findings from this report:
  • In 2017, 1.3% of babies born after 40 weeks gestation were classified as small

  • Fewer than 1 in 10 (9.6%) women who gave birth in 2017 smoked in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy

  • 2 in 5 selected women had an induced labour in 2017, an increase from 1 in 3 in 2004

  • 1 in 20 women who gave birth by caesarean section received general anaesthetic

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