Antenatal care received
Health services - Antenatal care
Definition:
NSW: Antenatal care received yes/no. QLD: Tick boxes for No Antenatal Care; Public hospital/clinic midwifery practitioner: includes public hospital clinics, hospital based midwifery clinics, and community based midwifery programs run by nursing staff; Public hospital/clinical medical practitioner: includes public hospitals and hospital based clinics attended by medical staff; General practitioner: includes a medical officer in general practice; Private medical practitioner: includes a private specialist medical practitioner in own private practice (for example a private obstetrician); Private midwife practitioner: registered midwife practising in the community. OTHER S/Ts: No definition specified.
Descriptions:
QLD PMC: Check boxes for antenatal model of care including "None".
Vic derives this item from the Discipline of Antenatal Care Provider item on their form/electronic collection by providing option of "None". Other disciplines are: Obstetrician, Midwife, General practitioner, and Other. NT PDC plans to capture "no antenatal care" from 2012. Tas PDC collects this information in Obstetrix Tas, a statewide Electronic Perinatal Database that is used in public maternity and publically contracted private hospitals throughout Tasmania.
Number of antenatal visits; Model of antenatal care