TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodological considerations in injury burden of disease studies across Europe
T2 - a systematic literature review
AU - Charalampous, Periklis
AU - Pallari, Elena
AU - Gorasso, Vanessa
AU - von der Lippe, Elena
AU - Devleesschauwer, Brecht
AU - Pires, Sara M.
AU - Plass, Dietrich
AU - Idavain, Jane
AU - Ngwa, Che Henry
AU - Noguer, Isabel
AU - Padron-Monedero, Alicia
AU - Sarmiento, Rodrigo
AU - Majdan, Marek
AU - Ádám, Balázs
AU - AlKerwi, Ala’a
AU - Cilovic-Lagarija, Seila
AU - Clarsen, Benjamin
AU - Corso, Barbara
AU - Cuschieri, Sarah
AU - Dopelt, Keren
AU - Economou, Mary
AU - Fischer, Florian
AU - Freitas, Alberto
AU - García-González, Juan Manuel
AU - Gazzelloni, Federica
AU - Gkitakou, Artemis
AU - Gulmez, Hakan
AU - Hynds, Paul
AU - Isola, Gaetano
AU - Jakobsen, Lea S.
AU - Kabir, Zubair
AU - Kissimova-Skarbek, Katarzyna
AU - Knudsen, Ann Kristin
AU - Konar, Naime Meriç
AU - Ladeira, Carina
AU - Lassen, Brian
AU - Liew, Aaron
AU - Majer, Marjeta
AU - Mechili, Enkeleint A.
AU - Mereke, Alibek
AU - Monasta, Lorenzo
AU - Mondello, Stefania
AU - Morgado, Joana Nazaré
AU - Nena, Evangelia
AU - Ng, Edmond S.W.
AU - Niranjan, Vikram
AU - Nola, Iskra Alexandra
AU - O’Caoimh, Rónán
AU - Petrou, Panagiotis
AU - Pinheiro, Vera
AU - Ortiz, Miguel Reina
AU - Riva, Silvia
AU - Samouda, Hanen
AU - Santos, João Vasco
AU - Santoso, Cornelia Melinda Adi
AU - Milicevic, Milena Santric
AU - Skempes, Dimitrios
AU - Sousa, Ana Catarina
AU - Speybroeck, Niko
AU - Tozija, Fimka
AU - Unim, Brigid
AU - Uysal, Hilal Bektaş
AU - Vaccaro, Fabrizio Giovanni
AU - Varga, Orsolya
AU - Vasic, Milena
AU - Violante, Francesco Saverio
AU - Wyper, Grant M.A.
AU - Polinder, Suzanne
AU - Haagsma, Juanita A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Maarten Engel from the Erasmus MC Medical Library for developing and updating the search strategies. The authors would also like to acknowledge the networking support from COST Action CA18218 (European Burden of Disease Network; www.burden-eu.net), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology; www.cost.eu).
Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Maarten Engel from the Erasmus MC Medical Library for developing and updating the search strategies. The authors would also like to acknowledge the networking support from COST Action CA18218 (European Burden of Disease Network; www.burden-eu.net ), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology; www.cost.eu ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/8/17
Y1 - 2022/8/17
N2 - Background: Calculating the disease burden due to injury is complex, as it requires many methodological choices. Until now, an overview of the methodological design choices that have been made in burden of disease (BoD) studies in injury populations is not available. The aim of this systematic literature review was to identify existing injury BoD studies undertaken across Europe and to comprehensively review the methodological design choices and assumption parameters that have been made to calculate years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD) in these studies. Methods: We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science, and the grey literature supplemented by handsearching, for BoD studies. We included injury BoD studies that quantified the BoD expressed in YLL, YLD, and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) in countries within the European Region between early-1990 and mid-2021. Results: We retrieved 2,914 results of which 48 performed an injury-specific BoD assessment. Single-country independent and Global Burden of Disease (GBD)-linked injury BoD studies were performed in 11 European countries. Approximately 79% of injury BoD studies reported the BoD by external cause-of-injury. Most independent studies used the incidence-based approach to calculate YLDs. About half of the injury disease burden studies applied disability weights (DWs) developed by the GBD study. Almost all independent injury studies have determined YLL using national life tables. Conclusions: Considerable methodological variation across independent injury BoD assessments was observed; differences were mainly apparent in the design choices and assumption parameters towards injury YLD calculations, implementation of DWs, and the choice of life table for YLL calculations. Development and use of guidelines for performing and reporting of injury BoD studies is crucial to enhance transparency and comparability of injury BoD estimates across Europe and beyond.
AB - Background: Calculating the disease burden due to injury is complex, as it requires many methodological choices. Until now, an overview of the methodological design choices that have been made in burden of disease (BoD) studies in injury populations is not available. The aim of this systematic literature review was to identify existing injury BoD studies undertaken across Europe and to comprehensively review the methodological design choices and assumption parameters that have been made to calculate years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD) in these studies. Methods: We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane Central, Google Scholar, and Web of Science, and the grey literature supplemented by handsearching, for BoD studies. We included injury BoD studies that quantified the BoD expressed in YLL, YLD, and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) in countries within the European Region between early-1990 and mid-2021. Results: We retrieved 2,914 results of which 48 performed an injury-specific BoD assessment. Single-country independent and Global Burden of Disease (GBD)-linked injury BoD studies were performed in 11 European countries. Approximately 79% of injury BoD studies reported the BoD by external cause-of-injury. Most independent studies used the incidence-based approach to calculate YLDs. About half of the injury disease burden studies applied disability weights (DWs) developed by the GBD study. Almost all independent injury studies have determined YLL using national life tables. Conclusions: Considerable methodological variation across independent injury BoD assessments was observed; differences were mainly apparent in the design choices and assumption parameters towards injury YLD calculations, implementation of DWs, and the choice of life table for YLL calculations. Development and use of guidelines for performing and reporting of injury BoD studies is crucial to enhance transparency and comparability of injury BoD estimates across Europe and beyond.
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U2 - 10.1186/s12889-022-13925-z
DO - 10.1186/s12889-022-13925-z
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35978333
AN - SCOPUS:85136057023
SN - 1471-2458
VL - 22
JO - BMC Public Health
JF - BMC Public Health
IS - 1
M1 - 1564
ER -