Indicators Index

Perinatal Services BC publishes maternal and neonatal indicators on a regular basis and reports on various perinatal health topics. The Maternal Indicators and Neonatal Indicators indices below are intended to provide a summary of indicators and in which reports they are included.

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Maternal Indicators

Pregnancy

Indicator	Report
Antenatal Visits	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Maternal Age	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Pre-Pregnancy Weight	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report Maternal Overweight, Obesity and Excess Gestational Weight Gain: Identification of Maternal and Perinatal Implications and Primary Maternity Care Providers’ Opportunities for Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes (2009)
Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Smoking During Pregnancy	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Substance Use During Pregnancy	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Maternal Screening	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Artificial Reproductive Technology	Perinatal Health Report

Labour

Indicator	Report
Labour Augmentation	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Labour Induction	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Post-Date Pregnancy	Facility-Level Indicators Using Inter-institutional Practice Variation to Understand the Risks and Benefits of Routine Labour Induction at 41+0 Weeks (2014)
Fetal Surveillance During Labour	Facility-Level Indicators Perinatal Health Report
Anesthesia or Analgesia During Labour and Delivery	Perinatal Health Report Anesthetic Complications in British Columbia 2003/04 to 2009/10 Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Women with ‘Normal Labour’	Perinatal Health Report
Length of Labour Stages	Perinatal Health Report

Delivery

Indicator	Report
Total Deliveries	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report Deliveries by Maternal Residence Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Deliveries by Parity	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Deliveries at Home	Perinatal Health Report Deliveries by Maternal Residence Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Cesarean Delivery	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16 Facility-Level Indicators Maternal, Care Provider, and Institutional-Level Risk Factors for Early Term Elective Repeat Cesarean Delivery: A Population-Based Cohort Study (2014) Examining Cesarean Section Rates in Canada Using Robson Classification System (2013) Validation of the Indications for Cesarean Delivery in the British Columbia Perinatal Data Registry (2012) Examining Cesarean Delivery Rates in BC Using the Robson Ten Classification, Part 1: Understanding the Ten Groups (2011) Pregnancy Outcomes of Women with Previous Cesarean Delivery in British Columbia (2011) Cesarean Birth Task Force Report (2008)
Vaginal Delivery	Perinatal Health Report Facility-Level Indicators Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Perineal Trauma	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Postpartum Hemorrhage	Quarterly Indicators (prior to 2014/15) Perinatal Health Report Epidemiological investigation of a temporal increase in atonic postpartum haemorrhage: A population-based retrospective cohort study (2013) Trends in postpartum hemorrhage from 2000 to 2009: a population-based study (2012)
Delivery Care Provider	Perinatal Health Report Births by Delivery Provider Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Length of Stay	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Maternal Transfers to Higher Level of Care	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report (effective from 2009/10 to 2013/14 report)
Maternal Morbidity	Perinatal Health Report Maternal Mortality in British Columbia (2008) Trends in postpartum hemorrhage from 2000 to 2009: a population-based study (2012)
Post-Delivery Admissions	Perinatal Health Report
Robson Classification	Robson Ten Classification Groups Table for BC Robson Subgroup Table Examining caesarean section rates in Canada using the Robson classification system Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16

Neonatal Indicators

Indicator	Report
Total Births	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report Births by Facility Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Preterm Births	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16 Preterm Birth in BC (2008) A population-based study of antenatal corticosteroid prophylaxis for preterm births (abstract) (2011)
Multiple Births	Perinatal Health Report
Stillbirths	Quarterly Indicators Rationalizing Definitions and Procedures for Optimizing Clinical Care and Public Health in Fetal Death and Stillbirth (2015) Determinants of increases in stillbirth rates from 2000 to 2010 (2013) Cause of the recent temporal increases in stillbirth rates in BC (abstract) (2012)
Gestational Age	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report
Weight for Gestational Age	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Newborn Resuscitation	Perinatal Health Report
Birth Injury	Perinatal Health Report
Congenital Anomalies	Perinatal Health Report Determinants of increases in stillbirth rates from 2000 to 2010 (2013)
Neonatal Transfers	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report
In-Hospital Neonatal Deaths	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report
Length of Stay	Perinatal Health Report
Neonatal Intensive Care	Perinatal Health Report Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16
Post-Neonatal Admissions	Perinatal Health Report
Breastfeeding	Quarterly Indicators Perinatal Health Report Facility-Level Indicators Breastfeeding Trends in British Columbia: 2004/05 to 2012/13 Midwifery Report: Deliveries in BC 2015/16

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