Proposed new tool to assess bronchiectasis severity in adult Indigenous Australians

Indigenous bronchiectasis assessment scale – the ‘IBAS’: a proposed new tool to assess bronchiectasis severity in adult Indigenous Australians

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)’.

Conclusion: The proposed IBAS tool could be of aid in assessing bronchiectasis severity in Indigenous patients.