TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality standards for managing children and adolescents with bronchiectasis
T2 - an international consensus
AU - Chang, Anne B.
AU - Boyd, Jeanette
AU - Bush, Andrew
AU - Hill, Adam T.
AU - Powell, Zena
AU - Zacharasiewicz, Angela
AU - Alexopoulou, Efthymia
AU - Chalmers, James D.
AU - Collaro, Andrew J.
AU - Constant, Carolina
AU - Douros, Konstantinos
AU - Fortescue, Rebecca
AU - Griese, Matthias
AU - Grigg, Jonathan
AU - Hector, Andreas
AU - Karadag, Bulent
AU - Mazulov, Oleksandr
AU - Midulla, Fabio
AU - Moeller, Alexander
AU - Proesmans, Marijke
AU - Wilson, Christine
AU - Yerkovich, Stephanie T.
AU - Kantar, Ahmad
AU - Grimwood, Keith
N1 - Copyright:
© ERS 2022. Breathe articles are open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence 4.0.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - The global burden of bronchiectasis in children and adolescents is being recognised increasingly. However, marked inequity exists between, and within, settings and countries for resources and standards of care afforded to children and adolescents with bronchiectasis compared with those with other chronic lung diseases. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) clinical practice guideline for the management of bronchiectasis in children and adolescents was published recently. Here we present an international consensus of quality standards of care for children and adolescents with bronchiectasis based upon this guideline. The panel used a standardised approach that included a Delphi process with 201 respondents from the parents and patients’ survey, and 299 physicians (across 54 countries) who care for children and adolescents with bronchiectasis. The seven quality standards of care statements developed by the panel address the current absence of quality standards for clinical care related to paediatric bronchiectasis. These internationally derived, clinician-, parent-and patient-informed, consensus-based quality standards statements can be used by parents and patients to access and advocate for quality care for their children and themselves, respectively. They can also be used by healthcare professionals to advocate for their patients, and by health services as a monitoring tool, to help optimise health outcomes.
AB - The global burden of bronchiectasis in children and adolescents is being recognised increasingly. However, marked inequity exists between, and within, settings and countries for resources and standards of care afforded to children and adolescents with bronchiectasis compared with those with other chronic lung diseases. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) clinical practice guideline for the management of bronchiectasis in children and adolescents was published recently. Here we present an international consensus of quality standards of care for children and adolescents with bronchiectasis based upon this guideline. The panel used a standardised approach that included a Delphi process with 201 respondents from the parents and patients’ survey, and 299 physicians (across 54 countries) who care for children and adolescents with bronchiectasis. The seven quality standards of care statements developed by the panel address the current absence of quality standards for clinical care related to paediatric bronchiectasis. These internationally derived, clinician-, parent-and patient-informed, consensus-based quality standards statements can be used by parents and patients to access and advocate for quality care for their children and themselves, respectively. They can also be used by healthcare professionals to advocate for their patients, and by health services as a monitoring tool, to help optimise health outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1183/20734735.0144-2022
DO - 10.1183/20734735.0144-2022
M3 - Article
C2 - 36865655
SN - 1810-6838
VL - 18
JO - Breathe
JF - Breathe
IS - 3
M1 - 220144
ER -