Skip to main content

Table 4 Numbers of CT scans per patient, by quintiles of Townsend deprivation scores.

From: Socio-economic variation in CT scanning in Northern England, 1990-2002

 

Townsend Quintiles

 

No. of scans

1

N (%)

2

N (%)

3

N (%)

4

N (%)

5

N (%)

Total

N (%)

1

1924 (62)

1921 (57)

2297 (57)

2640 (58)

2707 (60)

11489 (59)

2

730 (24)

857 (26)

1092 (27)

1211 (27)

1133 (25)

5023 (26)

3

129 (4.1)

170 (5.1)

184 (4.6)

190 (4.2)

201 (4.5)

874 (4.5)

4

133 (4.3)

198 (5.9)

194 (4.8)

221 (4.9)

209 (4.7)

955 (4.9)

5

48 (1.6)

38 (1.1)

56 (1.4)

53 (1.2)

57 (1.3)

252 (1.3)

6

42 (1.4)

56 (1.7)

63 (1.6)

64 (1.4)

54 (1.2)

279 (1.4)

7

15 (0.5)

23 (0.7)

26 (0.7)

30 (0.7)

13 (0.3)

107 (0.6)

8

20 (0.7)

25 (0.8)

26 (0.7)

32 (0.7)

40 (0.9)

143 (0.7)

9

6 (0.2)

5 (0.2)

10 (0.3)

10 (0.2)

11 (0.2)

42 (0.2)

10

11 (0.4)

14 (0.4)

12 (0.3)

21 (0.5)

21 (0.5)

79 (0.4)

11-20

21 (0.7)

37 (1.1)

44 (1.1)

53 (1.2)

35 (0.8)

190 (1.0)

> 20

12 (0.4)

9 (0.3)

9 (0.2)

13 (0.3)

9 (0.2)

52 (0.3)

Total

3091

3353

4013

4538

4490

19485

  1. P for association between quintile of deprivation and number of scans = 0.37