For Review: Pregnancy

timsell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:46:00 GMT

This is a new data type designed to store pregnancy related information. The Pregnancy data type supplements (and would be related to) existing data types like appointments, conditions and medications to help with scenarios that a consumer might find in a pregnancy diary or when talking with a doctor about past pregnancies.

The structure we created includes a top level Pregnancy type which in turn contains Delivery and Resolution sub types. One thing you will notice is that there are no required elements in this data type. This is so the consumer can use the type to build up a record of the pregnancy over time.

Pregnancy type

All the high level information is stored at this level.

Element	Type	Occurrence	Description
due date	approx-date	0..1	The approximate due date.
last-menstrual-period	approx-date	0..1	The first day of the last menstrual cycle.
conception-method	codable-value	0..1	The method of conception.
fetus-count	positiveInteger	0..1	The number of fetuses.
mother-maiden-name	string	0..1	The maiden name of the mother.
father-name	string	0..1	The name of the father.
delivery	delivery	0..1	Details about the delivery.
resolution	resolution	0..N	Details about the resolution for each fetus.

Delivery sub type

The details describing the delivery event are stored in this sub type.

Element	Type	Occurrence	Description
gestational-age	positiveInteger	0..1	Number of weeks of pregnancy at the time of delivery.
delivery-location	organization	0..1	The place where the delivery occurred.
delivery-method	codable-value	0..1	The method of the delivery.
anesthesia	codable-value	0..N	The anesthesia used during labor and delivery.
complications	codable-value	0..N	Any complications during labor and delivery.
labor-duration	positiveDouble	0..1	The duration of the labor in minutes.

Resolution sub type

The details describing the resolution of the pregnancy are stored in this sub type.

Element	Type	Occurrence	Description
when	approx-date-time	0..1	The data and time of the resolution.
outcome	codable-value	0..1	The outcome for a fetus.
child-name	string	0..1	The name of the child.
gender	codable-value	0..1	The gender of the child.
weight	weight-value	0..1	The birth weight of the child.
length	length-value	0..1	The birth length of the child.

Vocabularies referenced in the Pregnancy data type

There are several vocabularies mentioned above and described in this section.

Conception Method

Intercourse

Intracervical insemination

Intrauterine insemination

In vitro fertilization

Gamete Intrafallopian transfer

Zygote intrafallopian transfer

Delivery Method

Vaginal

Assisted vaginal

Caesarean section

Anesthesia

Systemic analgesics

Local anesthesia

Regional analgesia

Epidural analgesia

Spinal block

Combined spinal-epidural block

General anesthesia

Pudendal block

Complications

Breech

Placenta previa

Big baby (Macrosomia)

Emergency home birth

Pre-term labor

Induced labor

Uterine rupture

Cephalopelvic disproportion

Water break

Episiotomy

Outcome

Live birth

Miscarriage

Stillborn

Abortion

Gender

Male

Female

If this is a type that you would find useful and have any comments or questions, please post them to the Data Types forum.

HealthVault Data Types : pregnancy

For Review: Pregnancy