NOAD 2007 data collection

(Referral page and instructions for Lead Obstetric Anaesthetists collecting and returning data for 2007)

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If you are no longer the Lead OA please:

• forward the email to the lead OA in your unit
• send the name, telephone number and email address of the new Lead OA to the OAA Secretariat so that the records can be updated.

NOAD 2007 aims to collect a core set of obstetric anaesthetic information including data on dural puncture and epidural blood patching, which will be of use in multiple areas of obstetric anaesthesia.
Download and save the 2007 data collection form (also available below)

• Data does not have to be complete and you are asked to send whatever you have
• If the answer to any of the questions is 'none' please enter '0'; if unknown, please enter D/K (do not know)

This is the NOAD minimum dataset (which this year omits data on parity) and asks for block/collated information about your unit. Information may need to be collected from several sources, e.g. your lead midwife or lead obstetrician. Please complete the fields as accurately as possible. We have tried to define the fields tightly to avoid ambiguity and we recognise that some information is likely to be missing or not to be available retrospectively.

The completed file should be returned to the address on the bottom of the form (by email, post or fax). The information will be passed to Marc Van de Velde who will collate the data anonymously to give us the National picture. 

Links to data from earlier collections can be found in the members' area.

Thank you for your help.

Marc Van de Velde (to whom any queries should be addressed - via the Secretariat)
Bernadette Loughnan
Makani Purva 

(with input from outgoing subcommittee members: James Broadway and Vicki Clark)

OAA Secretariat, PO Box 3219, Barnes, London SW13 9XR
Fax: 020 8741 0611