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 4

ED disposition and mortality.

Variable	Overall	Confidence interval
	(%)
Discharged from ED	37/184 (20.1)	14.6–25.9%
Taken to theatre from ED	16/184 (8.7)	4.6–12.8%
Admitted to the hospital	131/184 (71.2)	64.5–77.4%
Died at the ED	0
Mortality at 24 hours	2/184 (1.1)	−0.4–2.6%
Mortality at 7 days	12/184 (6.5)	2.9–10.0%
Mortality at 3 months	25/173 (14.5)	9.3–19.8%
Overall in hospital mortality	18/184 (9.8)	5.5–14.1%

children were lost to follow-up.