Statistics about Bronchiectasis

Deaths from Bronchiectasis: 970 deaths (NHLBI 1999)

Death rate extrapolations for USA for Bronchiectasis: 969 per year, 80 per month, 18 per week, 2 per day, 0 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second.

Society statistics for Bronchiectasis

  Hospitalizations for Bronchiectasis: 6,000 (NHLBI 1999)

Hospitalization statistics for Bronchiectasis:

The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Bronchiectasis:

• 0.06% (7,605) of hospital consultant episodes were for bronchiectasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 78% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 39% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 61% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 54% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 10.5 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for bronchiectasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 8 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for bronchiectasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 60 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for bronchiectasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 37% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 22% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 16% of hospital consultant episodes for bronchiectasis were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 0.09% (48,984) of hospital bed days were for bronchiectasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)

  Physician office visits for Bronchiectasis: 45,000 (NHLBI 1999)

About statistics:

This page presents a variety of statistics about Bronchiectasis. The term 'prevalence' of Bronchiectasis usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Bronchiectasis at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Bronchiectasis refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Bronchiectasis diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.