Methodological considerations in injury burden of disease studies across Europe: a systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

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 q

SUBMITTER: Charalampous P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382747 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature