Table 2. Disability weights for common pediatric surgical conditions.

Intervention	Disability weighta	Intervention	Disability weighta
Cardiac Surgery		Ophthalmology
Arterial switch operation [7]	0.323	Cataract repair [8]	0.031
Atrial septal defect [7]	0.323	Corneal ulcers [8]	0.031
Atrioventricular septal defect [7]	0.323	Laser treatment for retinopathy of prematurity [8]
Blalock-Taussig shunt [7]	0.323		0.184
Coarctation of aorta [7]	0.323	Ocular trauma [7]	0.354
Fontan procedure [7]	0.323	Trachoma: Blindness [7]	0.570
Mediastinitis treatment [7]	0.323	Trachoma: Low vision [7]	0.170
Patent ductus arteriosus [7]	0.323	Orthopedics
Tetralogy of Fallot [7]	0.323	Amputation: arm [8]	0.079
Totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection [7]		Amputation: thumb [8]	0.011
	0.323	Amputation: finger [8]	0.005
Ventricular septal defect [7]	0.323	Femoral shaft fractures [8]	0.042
ENT		Musculoskeletal injuries [8]	0.079
Chronic suppurative otitis media: middle ear reconstruction [8]		Open tibial injuries [8]	0.055
	0.158	Pediatric trauma: major surgical treatment [7]
Cochlear implantation [8]	0.204		0.208
General Surgery		Pediatric trauma: minor procedures [8]	0.014
Appendectomy [7]	0.463	Ponseti clubfoot management [72]	0.231
Buruli ulcer [8]	0.051	Various orthopedic injury procedures [8]
Choledochal cyst excision [8]	0.114		0.042
Cystic echinococcosis [97]	0.239	Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Drainage of iliopsoas abscess [8]	0.114	Burns: superficial [8]	0.016
Hirschsprung’s repair: transanal endorectal pull-through [20]		Burns: partial thickness [8]	0.314
	0.720	Burns: full thickness [8]	0.314
Inguinal hernia repair [38]	0.300	Cleft lip [7]	0.082
Kidney transplantation [8]	0.547	Cleft palate [7]	0.216
Liver transplantation [7]	0.330	Neurosurgery
Posterior sagittal anorectoplasty [7]	0.850	Epilepsy: anterior temporal lobe lobectomy [8]
Removal of ureteral stents [7]	0.067		0.552
Splenectomy [8]	0.114	Epilepsy: corpus callosotomy [8]	0.552
Urology		Frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocoele [8]
Circumcision	0.028 b		0.405
Genital reconstruction [8]	0.114	Hydrocephalus [20]	0.740

Abbreviations include: DALY disability-adjusted life years; DW disability weight

GBD Global Burden of Disease study; HIV human immunodeficiency virus.

^a Estimated DW values were assigned based on published values, with preference given to long-term over short-term values, and subtracting treated weights from untreated weights whenever both were listed. For conditions with multiple published DWs, preference was first given to the values from GBD 2013 study,[8] followed by the GBD 2004 update,[7] and then Poenaru et al.[20] For conditions without a DW from those sources, values published from other sources were used.

^b Calculated assuming circumcision intervention reduces HIV prevalence from 12% to 6% [21] with an average of 15.5 DALY/case of HIV averted [22] using the universal life expectancy of a 0 year old male with 3% discounting and age-weighting.