The Queensland Perinatal Data Collection is managed by Queensland Health. It is an administrative data collection which records all births in Queensland. The information collected in the PDC is about pregnancy care, services and outcomes. This includes demographic, medical and obstetric information about the mother; and information on the labour, delivery and condition of the infant.

The Perinatal Data Collection Form (MR63D) is required to be completed, or in the case of hospitals providing electronic extracts, an extract is required, by all public hospitals, private hospitals, and private midwifery or medical practitioners who deliver babies outside hospitals, for all births occurring in Queensland.

The scope of the Collection includes all live births, and stillbirths of at least 20 weeks gestation and/or at least 400 grams in weight. Information relating to neonatal morbidity is collected up until the baby is discharged from the birth admission or up until the baby reaches 28 days of age.

Patient identifiers and therefore linkage are not available prior to 1 July 2007.

This dataset is linked routinely. The time lag for finalised linked data available for researchers is available here - Data collections available for linkage | Queensland Health

To monitor patterns of obstetric and neonatal practice in the State and to provide statistical information on specific topics within these fields to assist with the planning of Department of Health services. It is also intended to be a source of information for research in obstetric and neonatal care and to be used in the education of students of midwifery and medicine.

Queensland state data

Public Health Act 2005 (Qld)

Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)