Undernourished children presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania: a prospective descriptive study

Table 3 Disposition and mortality of undernourished of children under five years

Clinical variables	Undernourished children n/N ^a (%)
Admitted to the ward	104/146 (71.2)
Discharge from ED	39/146 (26.7)
Died in ED	3/146 (2.1)
24-h hospital mortality	4/137 (2.9)
48-h hospital mortality	6/137 (4.4)
30-day hospital mortality	18/135 (13.3)

^aN = total patients with followup at each given time period. N was 146 on day of enrolment and N = 137 at 24- and 48-h, and N = 135 at 30 day followup

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