An indicator of whether anaesthesia was administered to the mother during labour and/or delivery.
Queensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC)
Anaesthesia includes any drug related method of pain relief used by the mother during labour/delivery.
Queensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC): Must not be blank. Must be 1, 2 or 9. If code 2 Yes, Birth event-type of anaesthesia administered must be completed.
For national reporting of the Birth event-anaesthesia administered indicator (NHDD) data element the following mapping occurs: Code 1 No is mapped to code 2 No. Code 2 Yes is mapped to code 1 Yes.
Implementation in Metadata Sets
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Anaesthesia; Labour