objectives : to estimate the disabled-adjusted life years ( dalys) of road traffic accidents in patients referred to hospitals in yazd province, central iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in yazd province during 2010. to calculate the years of life lost (yll) due to premature death and to calculate the incidence of non-fatal injuries and years lost due to disability (yld), ...

Background Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an increasing public health threat. Measuring disease burden in disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) allows the combination of morbidity and mortality into one figure, as it represents summation years lived with disability life lost. Aim To evaluate incidence, attributable deaths most significant HAIs Italy. Methods Prevalence data from s...

abstract objective: in health economics, one of the important methods of economic evaluation is cost-effectiveness analysis. the usual procedure in this method is to consider effectiveness of disability-adjusted life years (dalys) as a measure criterion. material and methods: this was a cross sectional study of economic assessment type or cost-effectiveness. all over 30 years old population of ...

Objectives Increasing life expectancy and decreasing mortality in patients with HIV infection are well documented. However, details of how many the years healthy damaged by vs. good health have not been understood. We conducted this study to provide a comprehensive assessment levels trends global burden, as measured disability-adjusted (DALYs), infection. Methods Data on HIV-related DALY were o...

BACKGROUND Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of common methods to investigate the overall, worldwide burden. The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) provides a standardised approach to epidemiological ass...

BACKGROUND Rates of diseases and injuries and the effects of their risk factors can have substantial subnational heterogeneity, especially in middle-income countries like Mexico. Subnational analysis of the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors can improve characterization of the epidemiological transition and identify policy priorities. METHODS AND FINDINGS We estimated deaths and l...

BACKGROUND No studies have estimated disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) lost due to hip fractures using real-life follow-up cohort data. We aimed to quantify the burden of disease due to incident hip fracture using DALYs in prospective cohorts in the CHANCES consortium, and to calculate population attributable fractions based on DALYs for specific risk factors. METHODS We used data from s...

BACKGROUND Previous estimates of the burden of HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs have not included estimates of the burden attributable to the consequences of past injecting. We aimed to provide these estimates as part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2013. METHODS We modelled the burden of HBV and HCV (including cirrhosis and l...

To cite: Adhikari NKJ. BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:798–801. In high-income countries, prominent cases and seminal epidemiologic data 3 have focused attention on the importance of safe medical care for hospitalised patients. Since this initial work, reports from high-income countries have painted a remarkably consistent picture, with around 9% of hospital admissions complicated by an adverse event (ie,...