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© 1983 Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom

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Standard national perinatal data: a suggested common core of tabulations


Lesley Mutch
Diana Elbourne

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford


Lesley Mutch, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE

There is international acknowledgement of the need to standardize the way in which perinatal data are collected and presented. We have previously presented suggestions for the items which should be included in a minimum perinatal data set based on our analysis of 38 perinatal mortality enquiries and routine perinatal data collection systems. The items incorporated in this minimum data set had to be definable unequivocally, readily available for all maternities, and provide useful information.

We now offer suggestions for a standard set of 24 core tabulations which can be derived from the minimum data set we have described earlier. This set of core tabulations is suggested in the light of our review of the reports included in an Archive of locally-based perinatal surveys held at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. The set comprises 7 tables describing the characteristics of mothers and their babies; 9 tables documenting aspects of care they received; and 8 tables describing the outcome of pregnancy in terms of mortality and indicators of morbidity.

These tabulations are quite adequate for basic perinatal surveillance and could be generated using many of the perinatal data collection systems currently in existence.


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