Table 1.

Characteristics of chronic HCV-infected patients with and without evidence of pharmacy fill data for HCV treatment in the national Veterans Health Administration (VA) corporate data warehouse (CDW)

	Treatment in CDW		Absence of treatment in CDW
Characteristic	Validated n=493	Not validated n=8	Validated n=97	Not validated n=3
Age, years	60.9 (58.0-64.3)	56.0 (53.4-59.2)	61.2 (57.6-65.0)	55.2 (51.7-59.7)
Male sex	488 (99.0)	8 (100.0)	95 (97.9)	1 (33.3)
Race/ethnicity
Black/African-American	327 (66.3)	3 (37.5)	67 (69.1)	2 (66.7)
White	103 (20.9)	5 (62.5)	15 (15.5)	1 (33.3)
Hispanic	51 (10.3)	0 (0)	10 (10.3)	0 (0)
Other/unknown	12 (2.4)	0 (0)	5 (5.2)	0 (0)
HIV co-infection	230 (46.7)	2 (25.0)	43 (44.3)	0 (0)

Abbreviations: HCV - hepatitis C virus; HIV - human immunodeficiency virus

Note: continuous measures reported as median (interquartile range), categorical measures reported as n (%)