Clinical, Laboratory, and Management Profile in Patients of Liver Abscess from Northern India

Table 6

Statistical analysis: results of statistical analysis of abscess size and duration of hospitalisation with various clinical and laboratory variables using multivariate analysis. Association of these variables with mortality was studied using Chi-square test, which has also been given (only data with significant associations has been given).

	Parameter	Correlation coefficient	P value
Abscess volume	Anemia	−0.33	0.005
	Alkaline phosphatase	0.37	0.041
Duration of hospitalisation (morbidity indicators)	Duration of fever		0.02
	ESR	0.16	0.021
	INR	0.20	0.043
	Albumin	−0.28	0.033
Mortality	Females		0.001
	Duration of fever		0.001
	Icterus		0.001
	Ascites		0.006
	Pleural effusion		0.028