Table 4:

Discharge diagnoses, disposition from emergency department and follow-up

Variable	No. (%) of participants
	Hyoscine butylbromide n = 116	Acetaminophen n = 115
Discharge diagnosis*
Abdominal pain not yet determined	77 (66.4)	77 (67.0)
Gastroenteritis	37 (31.9)	27 (23.5)
Functional abdominal pain	0 (0.0)	10 (8.7)
Irritable bowel syndrome	2 (1.7)	1 (0.9)
Disposition
Admitted†	3 (2.6)	2 (1.7)
Discharged	113 (97.4)	113 (98.3)
72-h follow-up‡
Returned to medical care for abdominal pain	6 (5.2)	4 (3.5)
Hospital admission	1 (0.9)	0 (0.0)
Ongoing abdominal pain§	46 (54.8) (n = 84)	41 (48.8) (n = 84)

^*Based largely on physician judgment.

^†Admitted by the pediatric general surgery service for observation.

^‡Data obtained via telephone survey; for participants who could not be reached by telephone, data were obtained from the electronic medical record and therefore reflect the limits of the system’s catchment area.

^§Telephone survey alone.