Early versus late presentation in labour by parturient women at a tertiary facility in North Central Nigeria: A cross-sectional study

Background: Adequate intrapartum care is important in modulating pregnancy outcome through prevention, early recognition and appropriate treatment of intrapartum complications. Aim: To compare labour outcome following early to that of late presentation in labour. Methods: A comparative study at a tertiary hospital in North central Nigeria. Participants were pregnant women who presented early (cervical dilatation ≤ 5cm) or late (cervical dilation 9 or 10cm) at the study site with singleton, live foetus at ≥28weeks gestation. Deliveries before arrival at the delivery room were excluded from the study. Data was obtained from the hospital delivery records while data management was performed with SPSS version 21.0; p-value