Patient information, education and self-management in bronchiectasis: facilitating improvements to optimise health outcomes

Patient information, education and self-management in bronchiectasis: facilitating improvements to optimise health outcomes

Abstract Background Bronchiectasis is an incurable lung disease characterised by irreversible airway dilatation. It causes symptoms including chronic productive cough, dyspnoea, and recurrent respiratory infections often requiring hospital admission. Fatigue and reductions in quality of life are als...

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Main Authors: Katy L. M. Hester, Julia Newton, Tim Rapley, Anthony De Soyza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Subjects:
Bronchiectasis
Self-management
Information
Education
Qualitative
Adherence
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12890-018-0633-5

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