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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2020 May 27;138:106153. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106153

Table 2.

Characteristics of adult patients with complete hepatitis C screening data admitted to the hospital at least once between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2017, Georgia

Characteristics All patients Patients ever screeneda Patients not screened Chi-square p-value
n n % n %
Overall 291,975 252,848 86.6 39,127 13.4
Gender
 Female 170,942 148,748 87.0 22,194 13.0 <.0001
 Male 121,033 104,100 86.0 16,933 14.0
Age Category (years)
 18–29 64,288 56,033 87.2 8,255 12.8 <.0001
 30–39 44,224 38,126 86.2 6,098 13.8
 40–49 31,017 26,438 85.2 4,579 14.8
 50–59 39,062 33,566 85.9 5,496 14.1
 60–69 47,397 41,246 87.0 6,151 13.0
 70+ 65,987 57,439 87.0 8,548 13.0
ICD10 Code (diagnosis, comorbidity, complication)b
 Liver-Related: Any Viral Hepatitis 1,293 1,141 88.2 152 11.8 <.0001
 Liver-Related: Non-Hepatitis 2,025 1,487 73.4 538 26.6
 Non-liver related 288,657 250,220 86.7 38,437 13.3
Length of Hospital Stay (days)c
 1 73,337 59,968 81.8 13,369 18.2 <.0001
 2–5 172,442 152,880 88.7 19,562 11.3
 6–10 31,698 27,991 88.3 3,707 11.7
 >10 14,497 12,008 82.8 2,489 17.2
a

Patients ever screened (in evaluation period) defined as those patients with HCV screened (yes) and a result in the HCV result field (positive/negative). Patients with multiple admissions who met these criteria at least once included in this group.

b

Liver-related: any hepatitis ICD10 codes included: B15-B17, B18.0-B18.2, B18.8-B18.9, B19.0, B19.9 and K73. Liver-related: non-hepatitis ICD10 codes included: B67.0, B67.5, B67.8, C22, I82.0, K70-K72, K74-K77, R17, R18, R16.0, R16.2, T51, T64, and Z20.5. All other ICD10 codes found in the 066 system were included in the non-liver related category.

c

One patient had missing data on length of hospital stay.