British Thoracic Society guideline for bronchiectasis in adults

Adam T Hill; Anita L Sullivan; James D Chalmers; Anthony De Soyza; J Stuart Elborn; R Andres Floto; Lizzie Grillo; Kevin Gruffydd-Jones; Alex Harvey; Charles S Haworth; Edwin Hiscocks; John R Hurst; Christopher Johnson; W Peter Kelleher; Pallavi Bedi; Karen Payne; Hesham Saleh; NIcholas J Screaton; Maeve Smith; Michael Tunney; Deborah Whitters; Robert Wilson; Michael R Loebinger

doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2018-000348

British Thoracic Society guideline for bronchiectasis in adults

BMJ Open Respir Res. 2018 Dec 28;5(1):e000348. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2018-000348. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Adam T Hill¹, Anita L Sullivan², James D Chalmers³, Anthony De Soyza⁴, J Stuart Elborn⁵, R Andres Floto^{6

7}, Lizzie Grillo⁸, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones⁹, Alex Harvey¹⁰, Charles S Haworth⁷, Edwin Hiscocks¹¹, John R Hurst¹², Christopher Johnson⁷, W Peter Kelleher^{13

14

15}, Pallavi Bedi¹⁶, Karen Payne¹⁷, Hesham Saleh⁵, NIcholas J Screaton¹⁸, Maeve Smith¹⁹, Michael Tunney²⁰, Deborah Whitters²¹, Robert Wilson¹⁴, Michael R Loebinger¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Queen Elizabeth Hospital), Birmingham, UK.
³ Scottish Centre for Respiratory Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK, Dundee, UK.
⁴ Institute of Cellular Medicine, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Aging and, Freeman Hospital Adult Bronchiectasis Service, Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
⁵ Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London, and Queens University Belfast, London, UK.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁷ Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
⁸ Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
⁹ Box Surgery, Box, Wiltshire, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Clinical Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK.
¹¹ Coventry, Coventry, UK.
¹² UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK.
¹³ Centre for Immunology and Vaccinology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁴ Host Defence Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
¹⁵ Chest and Allergy Clinic, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
¹⁶ MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁷ Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.
¹⁸ Department of Radiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
²⁰ School of Pharmacy, Queens University, Belfast, UK.
²¹ Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK.

Abstract

The full British Thoracic Society Guideline for Bronchiectasis in Adults is published in Thorax. The following is a summary of the recommendations and good practice points. The sections referred to in the summary refer to the full guideline. The appendices are available in the full guideline.

Keywords: bronchiectasis.

Grants and funding

MR/L011263/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom