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Table 6 Composite output measure for assessing maternity service efficiency and productivity in Australia

From: An exploration of potential output measures to assess efficiency and productivity for labour and birth in Australia

Composite Measure (number of births with the absence of the following factors)

Values of women-centred maternity care

Safety

Respect

Choice

Access

Birth status: Stillbirth Birth

X

   

Neonatal death within 60 days

Apgar score of 7 or more at 5 min for births at or after term

X

   

Admission to NICU

X

   

Neonatal morbidity - Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

X

   

Neonatal morbidity – birth trauma

X

   

Neonatal morbidity – Intrauterine hypoxia

X

   

Other neonatal morbidity - meconium aspiration syndrome, congenital pneumonia or respiratory distress syndrome

X

   

Maternal death – within 60 days of birth

Mother’s postpartum perineal status: 3rd or 4th degree tear

X

X

  

Mother morbidity – postpartum haemorrhage

X

   

Mother morbidity – intrapartum haemorrhage

X

   

Mother morbidity – ruptured uterus

X