Table 5. New disability weights for the nature-of-injury groups used by EUROCOST, as derived from the responses of patients, from six injury cohorts, who were admitted to hospital.

Nature-of-injury groupa	New weights			EUROCOST weightsb
	n	Mean (95% CI)		n	Mean
		Annualized	At 12 months post-injury
Other skull – brain injury	3173	0.195 (0.184 to 0.206)	0.184 (0.172 to 0.192)	570	0.299
Fracture of knee/lower leg	2442	0.188 (0.178 to 0.199)	0.172 (0.160 to 0.184)	628	0.382
Fracture of hip	2407	0.281 (0.268 to 0.294)	0.273 (0.259 to 0.287)	1364	0.449
Internal organ injury	2066	0.182 (0.169 to 0.194)	0.162 (0.149 to 0.175)	295	0.218
Fracture of wrist	1622	0.071 (0.059 to 0.082)	0.062 (0.049 to 0.075)	75	0.085
Fracture/dislocation/strain/sprain of vertebrae/spine	1593	0.187 (0.173 to 0.201)	0.170 (0.155 to 0.186)	329	0.342
Fracture of ankle	1195	0.150 (0.135 to 0.164)	0.128 (0.112 to 0.144)	483	0.234
Fracture of rib/sternum	1010	0.185 (0.166 to 0.203)	0.179 (0.158 to 0.199)	116	0.272
Fracture of elbow/forearm	910	0.116 (0.100 to 0.132)	0.099 (0.082 to 0.117)	313	0.192
Fracture of pelvis	906	0.205 (0.185 to 0.225)	0.194 (0.172 to 0.216)	207	0.272
Fracture of upper arm	677	0.172 (0.150 to 0.193)	0.164 (0.140 to 0.188)	483	0.210
Fracture of femur shaft	648	0.261 (0.239 to 0.283)	0.234 (0.210 to 0.257)	357	0.326
Fracture of foot/toes	477	0.179 (0.156 to 0.202)	0.168 (0.143 to 0.193)	87	0.222
Fracture of clavicle/scapula	453	0.123 (0.100 to 0.145)	0.107 (0.082 to 0.132)	233	0.292
Spinal cord injury	419	0.350 (0.316 to 0.384)	0.333 (0.296 to 0.370)	160	0.163
Other injury	387	0.196 (0.168 to 0.223)	0.171 (0.141 to 0.201)	313	0.242
Complex soft tissue injury of lower extremities	358	0.090 (0.067 to 0.113)	0.058 (0.034 to 0.082)	292	0.227
Concussion	170	0.100 (0.062 to 0.138)	0.068 (0.029 to 0.106)	606	0.119
Burns	143	0.170 (0.120 to 0.220)	0.159 (0.103 to 0.215)	62	0.214
Fracture of facial bones	141	0.147 (0.101 to 0.192)	0.136 (0.084 to 0.189)	168	0.120
Dislocation/strain/sprain of shoulder/elbow	140	0.119 (0.077 to 0.161)	0.095 (0.049 to 0.140)	23	0.064
Open wounds	134	0.091 (0.052 to 0.129)	0.076 (0.033 to 0.118)	146	0.136
Complex soft tissue injury of upper extremity	123	0.103 (0.059 to 0.148)	0.099 (0.047 to 0.151)	99	0.250
Superficial injury, including contusions	117	0.100 (0.053 to 0.148)	0.076 (0.024 to 0.128)	856	0.177
Dislocation/strain/sprain of knee	86	0.131 (0.089 to 0.173)	0.106 (0.058 to 0.155)	2	0.169
Fracture hand/fingers	78	0.044 (0.009 to 0.079)	0.031 (−0.013 to 0.076)	107	0.211
Dislocation/strain/sprain of ankle/foot	69	0.200 (0.149 to 0.251)	0.183 (0.123 to 0.244)	37	0.210
Open wound face	59	0.236 (0.154 to 0.318)	0.215 (0.122 to 0.308)	131	0.204
Dislocation/strain/sprain of hip	58	0.189 (0.111 to 0.269)	0.170 (0.072 to 0.268)	176	0.337
Open wound head	39	0.092 (0.006 to 0.178)	0.037 (−0.053 to 0.127)	171	0.224
Dislocation/strain/sprain of wrist/hand/fingers	18	STS	STS	19	0.254
Eye injury	18	STS	STS	31	0.245
Whiplash, neck sprain, distortion of cervical spine	15	STS	STS	12	0.571
Foreign body	7	STS	STS	59	0.180
Poisoning	7	STS	STS	129	0.145

CI: confidence interval; STS: sample too small.

^a As used by EUROCOST.²¹

^b Time-weighted Integration of European Injury Statistics weights for 12 months post-injury.²¹