Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 228 days ago
Documentation
Description:
What is NIMATS?
The Northern Ireland Maternity System (NIMATs) contains a range of demographic and clinical information on mothers and infants. It captures data relating to the current complete maternity process, but also contains details about the mother’s past medical and obstetric history. It is a key source for data on birth numbers, interventions, maternal risk factors, birth weights, maternal smoking, BMI and breastfeeding on discharge.
Where is it used?
NIMATs is available in all five Health Trust areas across Northern Ireland, within each hospital providing maternity services (11 hospitals in total). Access to NIMATS is also available to midwives/clerical staff in various community clinics across NI to allow for booking appointments to be recorded.
Where does it get its data from?
The main source of data for NIMATS (excluding data input) is the Patient Administration System (PAS). PAS provides mainly demographic details which will have been recorded when the mother attended for her booking appointment and also data recorded on admission to hospital for delivery. Some laboratory results data is also provided by the NI Blood Transfusion Service.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,Northern Ireland
Typical Age Range:
0-56
Follow Up:
6 - 12 Months
Pathway:
Covers pregnancy pathway, also linkages to previous pregnancies and previous
medical history.
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Secondary care - Outpatients
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Irregular
Start Date:
10 November 2010
Time Lag:
2-6 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Remote access can now be granted via an HSCNI tenancy of the UK Secure
e-Research Platform (UK SeRP), the HBS still offer the physical safe setting in
Belfast for local research.
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-NIR
Data Controller:
HSC Health Trusts (Belfast, Northern, South Eastern, Southern and Western)
Data Processor:
HSC Honest Broker Service
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
Research use only
Data Use Requirements:
Project-specific restrictions
Resource Creators:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The authors would like to acknowledge the help provided by the staff of the Honest Broker Service (HBS) within the Business Services Organisation Northern Ireland (BSO). The HBS is funded by the BSO and the Department of Health (DoH). The authors alone are responsible for the interpretation of the data and any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the BSO.
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
- text
- csv
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Approx. 25,000 maternities annually
25000
Count
14 May 2021