Hepatitis C virus knowledge improves hepatitis C virus screening practices among primary care physicians

Table 2 Baseline characteristics of those individuals who responded to the survey (n = 91) from among the entire population invited to complete the survey (n = 163)

Variable	Total1	Level	Count/Mean	Percent/SD
Gender	91	Male	50	55.0
		Female	41	45.1
Specialty of practice	91	Family medicine	9	9.9
		Others	82	90.1
Primary practice location	91	Erie county medical center	36	39.6
		Buffalo general medical center	29	31.9
		Others	26	28.6
Evaluated at least one HCV patient in past 2 yr	90	Yes	47	52.2
		No	31	34.4
		Not Sure	12	13.3
Role in primary care clinic	91	Supervising physician/attending	15	16.5
		Resident in training	76	83.5
Level of training	85	Resident PGY1	25	29.4
		Resident PGY2	30	35.3
		Resident PGY3 or above	30	35.3
Awareness of age-based rule for screening	85	Yes	49	57.6
		No	36	42.4
Implementation of age-based rule for screening	85	Yes	34	40.0
		No	51	60.0
Knowledge of HCV natural history	85	Scores from 0 to 18	10.6	4.7
Knowledge of HCV treatment	82	Scores from 0 to 19	11.0	2.9

¹Missing values account for difference between number of responses recorded and the total number of survey respondents (n = 91). HCV: Hepatitis C virus; PGY: Post-graduate year.