LOINC Code 73813-8: Characteristics of labor and delivery [US Standard Certificate of Live Birth]

What is this code?

LOINC codes identify tests, measurements, observations, survey items, and clinical questions in a standardized way. It is associated with the component Characteristics of labor and delivery. It is commonly used with the system or sample type ^Patient.

When is it used?

• Used in lab systems, EHRs, and clinical data exchange.
• May identify a test, observation, survey item, or clinical document request rather than a diagnosis.
• Status: ACTIVE
• Order vs observation: Observation
• Method: US standard certificate of live birth

What it does not mean

• The code identifies the observation or test, not the actual result.

Key facts

• Characteristics of labor and delivery [US Standard Certificate of Live Birth]
• Characteristics of labor and delivery
• Information about the course of labor and delivery as defined by the US Standard Certificate of Live Birth (2003), including whether or not labor was induced or augmented, fetus was in non-vertex presentation, steroids were given for fetal lung maturation, antibiotics were received by the mother during delivery, clinical chorioamnionitis was diagnosed labor, moderate or heavy meconium staining was reported in the amniotic fluid, fetal intolerance of labor occurred and actions were taken, and epidural or spinal anesthesia was performed during labor.
• Characteristics of L+D; Echography; Finding; Findings; Nominal; Point in time; Random; Sonogram; Sonograph; Sonography; Survey; SURVEY.CDC; ULS; Ultrasound; US live birth

Where you may see this code

You may see this code in lab systems, lab reports, EHR exports, interoperability feeds, or other structured clinical data exchanges.

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