Table 5.

Unadjusted and adjusted associations between dropout at HCV RNA testing stage and socio-economic, demographic, clinical, behavioral, and hospital characteristics factors.

		Unadjusted Model		Adjusted Model †
Variables	N	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Age
<44	8987	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
44–54	6250	0.6	0.51, 0.69	0.5	0.42, 0.59
55–64	10,081	0.48	0.42, 0.55	0.4	0.35, 0.47
>64	22,927	2.53	2.31, 2.77	4.54	4.03, 5.12
Missing	435	14.23	10.78, 18.78	491	328.16, 734.68
Social Economic Status
Category 1	8224	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
Category 2	12,462	0.66	0.60, 0.72	0.77	0.70, 0.86
Category 3 or 4 or unknown	14,747	0.7	0.64, 0.76	0.95	0.86, 1.05
Missing	13,247	0.066	0.06, 0.08	0.011	0.01, 0.01
Sex
Female	32,100	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
Male	16,580	0.86	0.81, 0.92	0.87	0.80, 0.95
Health insurance
No insurance	7867	1		1	1.00, 1.00
Community insurance	39,312	0.71	0.65, 0.76	1.7	1.40, 2.06
Private or other government insurance (RAMA/RSSB)	1501	0.41	0.32, 0.51	1.13	0.82, 1.56
HIV
No	32,449	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
Yes	1829	0.27	0.19, 0.37	0.37	0.25, 0.54
Missing	14,402	1.34	1.25, 1.43	0.18	0.10, 0.31
Diabetes
No	33,611	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
Yes	693	0.68	0.47, 0.99	0.57	0.43, 0.76
Missing	14,376	1.43	1.34, 1.54	1.6	1.07, 2.40
Family history of viral hepatitis C
No	32,958	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
Yes	1583	0.57	0.45, 0.72	0.63	0.41, 0.98
Missing	14,139	1.44	1.35, 1.54	0.28	0.16, 0.50
HBV vaccination status
Partially or fully vaccinated	5701	1	1.00, 1.00	1	1.00, 1.00
Not vaccinated for hepatitis B	42,979	6.62	5.15, 8.51	8.77	6.66, 11.54

^† Controlled for marital status, hepatitis B status, hypertension status, and total number of hospital staff.