Evaluation of Medical and Nursing Management for Bronchiectasis

The purpose of this research is to retrospectively evaluate current clinical care of Bronchiectasis (non-cystic fibrosis \[CF\]) in adults from a multidisciplinary management perspective. This evaluation aims to address the important gaps in current clinical care in 2011, 2013 and July 2016- Jun2017. The primary outcome of this evaluation is to compare the efficacy of current multidisciplinary clinical practice to the British Thoracic Society (BTS) \& Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) guidelines for bronchiectasis. Secondary outcomes of this evaluation will determine the impact of clinical care in 2011, 2013 and July2016-June2017 through quantification of:hospital utilization for using hospital admission data, average length of stay, readmission rates within 28 days, emergency service attendance, outpatient review, exacerbations use of antibiotics, use of Hospital and Home (H@H), number of contacts with the respiratory nursing service and type of contacts with the respiratory nursing service.