| | 2011 | 2010 |
Patient number (new: follow-up) | | 89: 45 | |
Mean age (years (range)) | | 68 (28-92) | |
New patient diagnosis number (%) | MPE | 47 (52.8) | |
| Pleural infection | 16 (18) | |
| Cardiac failure | 6 (6.7) | |
Procedure type (%) | Diagnostic+/-therapeutic aspiration | 64.6 (therapeutic only 15.2) | |
| Chest drain insertion | 26.6 | |
| IPC insertion | 3.8 | |
Hospital admission rate (%) | | 17 | |
Total number of patients admitted with pleural effusion | | 81 | 37 |
Length of stay, mean (range) | Of all patients | 4.4 (0-22) | 8.78 (0-26) |
| Excluding patients admitted from pleural clinic | 6.69 (0-22) | |
| Of patients admitted from pleural clinic | 3.89 (1-7) | |