Indigenous bronchiectasis assessment scale - the 'IBAS': a proposed new tool to assess bronchiectasis severity in adult Indigenous Australians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of a comprehensive bronchiectasis severity assessment tool specific for Indigenous people that corrects for normative references established for the non-Indigenous population.

Aims

An innovative bronchiectasis assessment tool is developed for use in adult Indigenous patients - the Indigenous bronchiectasis assessment scale '(IBAS)'.

Methods

A total of 454 adult Indigenous Australian patients, with chest CT confirmed bronchiectasis diagnosed between 2011 and 2020, were included. Age, sex, residence location, body mass index, radiological findings, sputum microbiology, lung function parameters and medical comorbidities were utilised to predict 5-year all-cause mortality and 5-year hospitalisations. Scores of parameters with P < 0.20 from univa

SUBMITTER: Howarth T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12515470 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature