PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Clare E Hooper
AU  - Sally A Welham
AU  - Nick A Maskell
TI  - Pleural procedures and patient safety: a national BTS audit of practice
AID  - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204812
DP  - 2015 Feb 01
TA  - Thorax
PG  - 189--191
VI  - 70
IP  - 2
4099  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/70/2/189.short
4100  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/70/2/189.full
SO  - Thorax2015 Feb 01; 70
AB  - The BTS pleural procedures audit collected data over a 2-month period in June and July 2011. In contrast with the 2010 audit, which focussed simply on chest drain insertions, data on all pleural aspirations and local anaesthetic thoracoscopy (LAT) was also collected. Ninety hospitals submitted data, covering a patient population of 33 million. Twenty-one per cent of centres ran a specialist pleural disease clinic, 71% had a nominated chest drain safety lead, and 20% had thoracic surgery on site. Additionally, one-third of centres had a physician-led LAT service.