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Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, October 2022, experimental statistics
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Data quality note - Identification of vaginal birth after previous caesarean delivery
Some figures for the CQIMVBAC metric (women who gave birth to a baby vaginally after a previous caesarean section) have been amended and reissued in this publication, following an improvement to the construction of this metric.
Previously a small number of first-time births were being considered in this metric due to some inconsistencies in the recording of the number of a woman’s previous births. For this metric, we now disregard any pregnancies where the count of previous births is amended after the labour and delivery.
3 February 2023 15:18 PM
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Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS): this is a patient-level data set that captures information about activity carried out by Maternity Services relating to a mother and baby(s), from the point of the first booking appointment until mother and baby(s) are discharged from maternity services. This is a secondary uses data set, which re-uses clinical and operational data for purposes other than direct patient care.
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