The Burden and Outcomes of Abdominal Pain among Children Presenting to an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Tanzania: A Descriptive Cohort Study

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of children presenting with abdominal pain.

Variable	Overall
	(%)
	Male	124 (64.7)
Age in years, median (IQR)	3.5 (1.3–7.0)
Below 5 years	114 (61.9)
Above 5 years	70 (38.1)
First time abdominal pain	111 (60.3)
Duration of current illness (days), median (IQR)	4 (2.0–8.0)
Time to presentation to any hospital, median (IQR)	2 (1.0–6.0)
Referred from peripheral hospitals	138 (75.0)