Open AccessThe demographic characteristics and health seeking behaviour of unbooked patients in Irrua specialist teaching hospital
Author(s) -
SA Okogbenin,
Patrick I. Okonta,
J Eigbefoh,
BO Okusanya
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v16i1.37284
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , teaching hospital , medicine , period (music) , hospital records , family medicine , pediatrics , obstetrics , physics , acoustics , surgery
The Obstetric outcome of the patients who receive antenatal care and deliver at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital is reasonably satisfactory. Our major challenges arise from unbooked emergencies. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of unbooked patients in the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, their clinical presentation, their demographic characteristics as well as their obstetric outcome.