The global injury mortality data collection of the Global Burden of Disease Injury Expert Group:a publicly accessible research tool

摘要

Introduction The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Injury Expert Group (Bhalla & Harrison, 2009) has been actively collecting data to improve estimates of the burden of injuries produced as part of the GBD-2005 project (Murray & Lopez, 1996; Murray et al., 2007). We initiated data gathering in January 2009 with an open call for contributions (Bhalla et al., 2009) and have supplemented it with searches through the published literature, online databases and direct contact with researchers and government agencies. In this data hunt, we included all data sources that had the potential to be used to derive estimates of population-level incidence of fatal and non-fatal injuries in a country or a region. These data sources included data from national death registers, mortuary records, police reports, national health surveys and hospital registries.