TABLE 1.

Economic burden of bronchiectasis

Outpatient direct costs	Inpatient direct costs	Advanced disease costs	Indirect costs
Medication costs	Length of stay	Long-term oxygen therapy	Work productivity impairment (absenteeism and presenteeism)
Medical appointments	Intravenous antibiotics	Non-invasive ventilation	Disability and early retirement
Physiotherapy	ICU resources	Lung transplantation	Limitations of daily life
Pulmonary rehabilitation	Inpatient physiotherapy		Caregiver burden
Treatment of exacerbations	Imaging and laboratory exams
Treatment of complications	Treatment of complications
Sputum microbiology
Radiology
Laboratory exams

ICU: intensive care unit.