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Table 3 Births: Providers ratio and average number of births

From: Association of the client-provider ratio with the risk of maternal mortality in referral hospitals: a multi-site study in Nigeria

Hospital

All providers

All doctors

All nurses & midwives

Specialist Obstetricians

mDoctors

Midwives

mProviders

Average births %(n)

Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Ibadan

14

85

17

850

162

17

16

12.8 (3399)

General Hospital, Minna

15

104

18

2695

539

31

29

20.4 (5389)

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

5

13

9

304

77

53

31

19.5 (5164)

Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria

1

3

3

89

26

3

3

7.4 (1955)

State Hospital, Ijaye Abeokuta

7

29

9

657

101

15

13

4.9 (1314)

Karshi General Hospital, Abuja

12

52

16

892

59

22

16

3.4 (892)

Central Hospital, Warri

22

64

33

1087

207

37

32

16.4 (4349)

Central Hospital, Benin City

13

50

17

502

155

27

23

15.2 (4017)

All 8 Hospitals

7

19

11

441

106

18

15

26,479

Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r)

0.060

0.080

0.001

0.095

0.228

0.043

0.134

 
  1. All providers refer to all doctors, nurses and midwives in the entire hospital; All doctors refer to all doctors in all the departments in the entire hospital; All nurses and midwives refer to all nurses and midwives in the entire hospital; mdoctors refers to doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology department and specialists Obstetricians; mproviders refers to doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments, specialist Obstetricians and midwives