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Table 4 ANC Attendees: Providers ratio and average number of ANC Attendees

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 ANC attendees %(n)

Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Ibadan

23

141

28

1413

269

29

26

1.7 (5651)

General Hospital, Minna

28

190

33

4939

988

56

53

2.9 (9877)

Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

32

77

54

1821

462

316

188

9.3 (30963)

Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria

7

15

14

460

133

16

14

3.0 (10118)

State Hospital, Ijaye Abeokuta

91

396

119

8905

1370

210

182

5.3 (17810)

Karshi General Hospital, Abuja

34

145

44

2472

165

60

44

0.7 (2472)

Central Hospital, Warri

162

472

247

8017

1527

274

232

9.6 (32066)

Central Hospital, Benin City

727

2818

980

28,183

8672

1503

1281

67.4 (225467)

All 8 Hospitals

89

241

141

5574

1343

222

190

334,425

Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r)

0.851*

0.870*

0.841*

0.847*

0.890*

0.848*

0.858*

 
  1. Note: Significance-level (two-tailed): *p < .05
  2. 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