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Data Element Detail

Pregnancy-primary reason for termination of pregnancy
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 0142358 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Draft
17-Dec-2021		Current
18-Jul-2023
Standard
Information Management Strategic Governance Committee (IMSGC), Queensland Health
01-Jul-2022
30-Jun-2023
The primary reason a pregnancy or selected fetus was terminated.
Queensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC)
Primary reason for pregnancy termination
Reason for abortion; Reason for induced abortion
Representational Attributes
Numeric Character
Code
NN
2
2
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

CodeDescription
01Fetal congenital anomaly
02Maternal medical or obstetric condition
03Maternal mental health indication
04Maternal circumstantial indication
05Selective reduction of multiple pregnancy
07No reason provided
88Other
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

CodeDescription
97Not applicable
99Not stated/inadequately described
Collection and Usage Attributes
Code 01 Fetal congenital anomaly
Use this code when the reason for termination of pregnancy was fetal congenital anomaly.

Code 02 Maternal medical or obstetric condition
Use this code when the reason for termination of pregnancy was maternal medical or obstetric condition.

Code 03 Maternal mental health indication
Use this code when the reason for termination of pregnancy was maternal mental health indication.

Code 04 Maternal circumstantial indication
Use this code when the reason for termination of pregnancy was maternal circumstantial indication. Maternal circumstantial indication refers to social or personal factors informing the primary reason for a termination of pregnancy.

Code 05 Selective reduction of multiple pregnancy
Use this code when the reason for termination of pregnancy was selective reduction of multiple pregnancy.

Code 07 No reason provided
Use this code when the woman did not provide a reason for termination.

Code 88 Other
Use this code when the reason for termination of pregnancy was for another reason not otherwise defined.

Code 97 Not applicable
Use this code when the pregnancy was not terminated.

Code 99 Not stated/inadequately described
Use this code when data is missing or inadequately described.

Only one reason for termination of pregnancy should be recorded.
This data element is recorded for the mother only.

For reporting of the national standard, Pregnancy-primary reason for termination of pregnancy (NHDD), the following mapping occurs:
Code 01 Fetal congenital anomaly is mapped to code 1 Fetal congenital anomaly
Code 02 Maternal medical or obstetric condition is mapped to code 2 Maternal medical or obstetric condition
Code 03 Maternal mental health indication is mapped to code 3 Maternal mental health indication
Code 04 Maternal circumstantial indication is mapped to code 4 Maternal circumstantial indication
Code 05 Selective reduction of multiple pregnancy is mapped to code 5 Selective reduction of multiple pregnancy
Code 07 No reason provided is mapped to code 7 No reason provided
Code 88 Other is mapped to code 88 Other
Code 97 Not applicable is mapped to Code 97 Not applicable
Code 99 Not stated/inadequately described is mapped to code 99 Not stated/inadequately described.
Code 9 is not intended for use on primary collection instruments.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

No Metadata Items
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC)QH 020003 Version 2ConditionalCurrent01-Jul-202230-Jun-2023
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
METeOR data element: Product of birth-primary reason for termination of pregnancy, code N identifier 716421, Health Standard 17/12/2021 https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/716421?technical=True
Perinatal death; Perinatal mortality; Primary; Reason; TOP; Termination;