Management practices of hepatitis C virus infected alcoholic hepatitis patients: A survey of physicians

Table 3 Effect of respondent variables on proportion of respondents being in consensus on all four questions related to management of hepatitis C virus infected alcoholic hepatitis patients

Respondentvariable	Consensus on all four questions related tomanagement of HCV infected AH patients
	n (%)	P value	OR (95%CI)
Age (yr)
< 35	37 (44)		1
35-44	52 (46)		0.9 (0.5-1.8)
45-54	58 (53)	0.2	1.1 (0.6-3.1)
≥ 55	44 (43)		1.9 (0.5-4.3)
Specialty
GE	125 (56)		1
HP	84 (47)	0.37	1.4 (0.97-2.1)
Patients (n/yr)
< 30	180 (52)		1
≥ 30	22 (49)	0.29	1.1 (0.6-2.1)
HCV prevalence
< 20%	71 (46)	0.48	0.9 (0.6-1.4)
≥ 20%	97 (48)		1

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; GE: Gastroenterology; HP: Hepatology; AH: Alcoholic hepatitis. Also shown are results of logistic regression analysis for each respondent variable given as odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI).