title: Booking status and caesarean section outcome in LAUTECH teaching Hospital, Osogbo.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Antenatal care is concerned mainly with prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of general medical and pregnancy associated disorders. Quality of care varies across health facilities; the booking status of the women who deliver would have influence on the pregnancy outcome.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comparative study of caesarean section outcome among the booked and unbooked mothers delivered at Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age of the women was 29.7 +/- 5.9 years. The booked mothers were older than the unbooked mothers. All the maternal deaths were among the unbooked mothers. There were higher rates of preterm birth, neonatal asphyxia and neonatal admissions to intensive care units among the babies delivered by unbooked mothers compared to the booked mothers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Unbooked women and their babies are at higher risks of caesarean section complications than the booked mothers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Health Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. adekanle2000@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Adekanle
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Adeyemi
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Fadero
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D009549:Nigeria; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011295:Prenatal Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care