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