Table 4.

New South Wales prostate brachyhterapy workload per centre and comparison with other jurisdictions. NB: One NSW department with temporarily resource constrained BT programme treating only 1 patient is excluded from Table; if included, NSW figures/centre would be: mean: 47.2, range: 1-117, 60% ≥ 25 cases

Cases/Centre/Year	NSW 2003	ABS 1992 [18]	Western Europe 2002 [19]	UK 1998 [20]	UK 2004 [11]	Italy 2002 [21]	Spain 2002 [21]
Mean	59	–	35.3	30	53.6	6.0	16.3
Range	14-117	–	–	4-80	3-177	95% CI: 1.4-10.7	95% CI: 5.3-27.3
Other	75% ≥ 25 cases	45% > 10 cases	–	50% ≥ 10 cases	63% ≥ 25 cases	–	–

NSW – New South Wales, ABS – American Brachytherapy Society, UK – United Kingdom, 95% CI – 95% confidence interval