Experts has a new look! Let us know what you think of the updates.

Provide feedback
Home
Scholarly Works
The burden of unintentional drowning: global,...
Journal article

The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Drowning is a leading cause of injury-related mortality globally. Unintentional drowning (International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 10 codes W65-74 and ICD9 E910) is one of the 30 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive causes of injury-related mortality in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. This study's objective is to describe unintentional drowning using GBD estimates from 1990 to 2017. METHODS: Unintentional …

Authors

Franklin RC; Peden AE; Hamilton EB; Bisignano C; Castle CD; Dingels ZV; Hay SI; Liu Z; Mokdad AH; Roberts NLS

Journal

Injury Prevention, Vol. 26, No. Suppl 2, pp. i83–i95

Publisher

BMJ

Publication Date

October 2020

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043484

ISSN

1353-8047