Each decile contains one tenth of the wealth distribution – from the least wealthy households in the first decile to the wealthiest in the tenth.
Higher proportions of patients were from the second and third least deprived fifths of SIMD 2004, whereas lower proportions were from the least and (especially) the most deprived fifth.
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In fact, patients from the most deprived fifth having either a knee replacement or a cataract repair waited less than patients from the least deprived fifth (P<0.05).
Very preterm infants of mothers in the most deprived fifth were 2% more likely to die before discharge compared with infants of mothers from the least deprived fifth (incidence rate ratio 1.02, 0.86 to 1.20).
One practice was from the least deprived postcode fifth, one from the middle fifth, and two from the most deprived fifth.
The widest deprivation gap was seen for deaths due to antepartum haemorrhage, and pregnancies from the most deprived tenth were 3.19595% CI 2.8 to 3.5) times more likely to result in stillbirth than those from the least deprived tenth.
The third method (the least common) uses feedback from health experts to assign weights to the selected variables [ 21- 24].
Detailed indicators for the different components of employment protection have been first normalized from 0 to 1 from the least to the most restrictive in the country sample.
This increased with increasing deprivation, with women from the most deprived fifth almost twice as likely to have a pregnancy that resulted in the birth of a very preterm baby who died before discharge, compared with a woman from the least deprived fifth (relative risk 1.94, 95% confidence interval 1.62 to 2.32) (table 1).
