Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- 1. Introduction
- The Perinatal National Minimum Data Set
- National Perinatal Data Development Committee
- Methods
- Consultation
- 2. Evaluation overview
- Evaluated data elements
- National overview
- State and territory overview
- 3. Evaluation of individual data elements
- Actual place of birth
- Anaesthesia administered indicator
- Analgesia administered indicator
- Antenatal care visits
- Apgar score at 5 minutes
- Area of usual residence
- Birth order
- Birth plurality
- Birthweight
- Caesarean section at most recent previous birth indicator
- Country of birth
- Date of birth (baby)
- Date of birth (mother)
- Establishment identifier
- Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier
- Establishment—sector
- Establishment—region identifier
- Establishment—organisation identifier (state/territory)
- Gestational age
- Indigenous status (baby)
- Indigenous status (mother)
- Labour onset type
- Method of birth
- Number of tobacco cigarettes smoked per day after
- 20 weeks of pregnancy
- Parity
- Person identifier (baby)
- Person identifier (mother)
- Postpartum perineal status
- Pregnancy duration at the first antenatal visit
- Presentation at birth
- Separation date (baby)
- Separation date (mother)
- Sex
- State/territory of birth
- Status of the baby
- Tobacco smoking indicator, after 20 weeks of pregnancy
- Tobacco smoking indicator, first 20 weeks of pregnancy
- Type of anaesthesia administered during a birth event
- Type of analgesia administered during a birth event
- Appendix A: List of data items collected as part of the NPDC
- Appendix B: National Perinatal Data Development Committee
- Appendix C: Number of mothers and babies
- Appendix D: National Perinatal Data Collection quality statements
- Glossary
- References
- Related publications
- List of tables
- List of figures