Figure 1.
Sample selection showing matched HCV versus no‐HCV cohorts. *Patients without any HCV diagnosis from Q1 2009 to Q1 2015 or patients who had a single HCV diagnosis with more than six months of follow‐up after this diagnosis (if the initiation HCV diagnosis was not followed within six months by another diagnosis it is likely that the initial diagnosis was linked to a test / exam for HCV and not to a confirmed HCV diagnosis).