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HES Data Dictionary
| HES field name | Length of gestation | ||||
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| Field | gestat | ||||
| Class | Maternity | ||||
| Length and format | 2n | ||||
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| Description | |||||
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The fields contain the number of completed weeks of gestation according to the World Health Organization definition, which specifies time from the first day of the last menstrual period. If this date is not reliable, an estimate is provided. This item appears for each baby on multiple birth delivery records. |
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| Value | |||||
2n = Number of weeks in the range 10 to 49 99 = Not known: a validation error |
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