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Clinical experiences with the use of oxytocin injection by healthcare providers in a southwestern state of Nigeria: A cross-sectional study

  • Chioma Stella Ejekam ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Chioma Stella Ejekam, Ifeoma Peace Okafor, Chimezie Anyakora, Ebenezer A. Ozomata

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: chioma.s.ejekam@gmail.com

    Affiliation Department of Community Health, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7665-0278

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  • Ifeoma Peace Okafor ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Chioma Stella Ejekam, Ifeoma Peace Okafor, Chimezie Anyakora, Ebenezer A. Ozomata

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Community Health and Primary care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Akoka Lagos, Nigeria

    ⨯
  • Chimezie Anyakora ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Chioma Stella Ejekam, Ifeoma Peace Okafor, Chimezie Anyakora, Ebenezer A. Ozomata

    Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Promoting the Quality of Medicines Program, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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  • Ebenezer A. Ozomata ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Chioma Stella Ejekam, Ifeoma Peace Okafor, Chimezie Anyakora, Ebenezer A. Ozomata

    Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation Department of Community Health, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

    ⨯
  • Kehinde Okunade ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

    Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0957-7389

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  • Sofela Ezekiel Oridota ,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

    Affiliations Department of Community Health, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, Department of Community Health and Primary care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Akoka Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Jude Nwokike

    Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

    Affiliation Promoting the Quality of Medicines Program, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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Clinical experiences with the use of oxytocin injection by healthcare providers in a southwestern state of Nigeria: A cross-sectional study

  • Chioma Stella Ejekam, 
  • Ifeoma Peace Okafor, 
  • Chimezie Anyakora, 
  • Ebenezer A. Ozomata, 
  • Kehinde Okunade, 
  • Sofela Ezekiel Oridota, 
  • Jude Nwokike
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  • Published: October 10, 2019
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208367
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