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. 2020 Oct;26(Supp 1):i115-i124.
doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043495. Epub 2020 Mar 13.

Global trends of hand and wrist trauma: a systematic analysis of fracture and digit amputation using the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study

Christopher Stephen Crowe  1 Benjamin Ballard Massenburg  2 Shane Douglas Morrison  2 James Chang  3 Jeffrey Barton Friedrich  2 Gdiom Gebreheat Abady  4 Fares Alahdab  5 Vahid Alipour  6   7 Jalal Arabloo  6 Malke Asaad  8 Maciej Banach  9   10 Ali Bijani  11 Antonio Maria Borzì  12 Nikolay Ivanovich Briko  13 Chris D Castle  14 Daniel Youngwhan Cho  2 Michael T Chung  15 Ahmad Daryani  16 Gebre Teklemariam Demoz  17   18 Zachary V Dingels  14 Hoa Thi Do  19 Florian Fischer  20 Jack T Fox  14 Takeshi Fukumoto  21   22 Abadi Kahsu Gebre  23 Berhe Gebremichael  24 Juanita A Haagsma  25 Arvin Haj-Mirzaian  26   27 Demelash Woldeyohannes Handiso  28 Simon I Hay  14   29 Chi Linh Hoang  30 Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani  31 Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak  32 Rohollah Kalhor  33 Amir Kasaeian  34   35 Yousef Saleh Khader  36 Rovshan Khalilov  37 Ejaz Ahmad Khan  38 Roba Khundkar  39 Sezer Kisa  40 Adnan Kisa  41 Zichen Liu  14 Marek Majdan  42 Navid Manafi  43   44 Ali Manafi  45 Ana-Laura Manda  46 Tuomo J Meretoja  47   48 Ted R Miller  49   50 Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani  51 Reza Mohammadpourhodki  52 Mohammad A Mohseni Bandpei  53 Ali H Mokdad  14   29 Mukhammad David Naimzada  54   55 Duduzile Edith Ndwandwe  56 Cuong Tat Nguyen  57 Huong Lan Thi Nguyen  57 Andrew T Olagunju  58   59 Tinuke O Olagunju  60 Hai Quang Pham  57 Dimas Ria Angga Pribadi  61 Navid Rabiee  62 Kiana Ramezanzadeh  63 Kavitha Ranganathan  64 Nicholas L S Roberts  14 Leonardo Roever  65 Saeed Safari  66 Abdallah M Samy  67 Lidia Sanchez Riera  68   69 Saeed Shahabi  70 Catalin-Gabriel Smarandache  71   72 Dillon O Sylte  14 Berhe Etsay Tesfay  73 Bach Xuan Tran  74 Irfan Ullah  75   76 Parviz Vahedi  77 Amir Vahedian-Azimi  78 Theo Vos  14   29 Dawit Habte Woldeyes  79 Adam Belay Wondmieneh  80   81 Zhi-Jiang Zhang  82 Spencer L James  14
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Global trends of hand and wrist trauma: a systematic analysis of fracture and digit amputation using the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study

Christopher Stephen Crowe et al. Inj Prev. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

Background: As global rates of mortality decrease, rates of non-fatal injury have increased, particularly in low Socio-demographic Index (SDI) nations. We hypothesised this global pattern of non-fatal injury would be demonstrated in regard to bony hand and wrist trauma over the 27-year study period.

Methods: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 was used to estimate prevalence, age-standardised incidence and years lived with disability for hand trauma in 195 countries from 1990 to 2017. Individual injuries included hand and wrist fractures, thumb amputations and non-thumb digit amputations.

Results: The global incidence of hand trauma has only modestly decreased since 1990. In 2017, the age-standardised incidence of hand and wrist fractures was 179 per 100 000 (95% uncertainty interval (UI) 146 to 217), whereas the less common injuries of thumb and non-thumb digit amputation were 24 (95% UI 17 to 34) and 56 (95% UI 43 to 74) per 100 000, respectively. Rates of injury vary greatly by region, and improvements have not been equally distributed. The highest burden of hand trauma is currently reported in high SDI countries. However, low-middle and middle SDI countries have increasing rates of hand trauma by as much at 25%.

Conclusions: Certain regions are noted to have high rates of hand trauma over the study period. Low-middle and middle SDI countries, however, have demonstrated increasing rates of fracture and amputation over the last 27 years. This trend is concerning as access to quality and subspecialised surgical hand care is often limiting in these resource-limited regions.

Keywords: burden of disease; descriptive epidemiology; hand injury.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Dr. Jozwiak reports personal fees from TEVA, personal fees from ALAB, personal fees from BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, personal fees from SYNEXUS, non-financial support from SERVIER, non-financial support from MICROLIFE, and non-financial support from MEDICOVER, outside the submitted work. Dr. James reports grants from Sanofi Pasteur, outside the submitted work.

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Figure 1
Age-standardised incidence rate of hand and wrist fractures in 2017 (A) and percentage change in hand and wrist fracture incidence rate from 1990 to 2017 (B).
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Figure 2
Age-standardised incidence rate of thumb amputations in 2017 (A) and percentage change in thumb amputation incidence rate from 1990 to 2017 (B).
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Figure 3
Age-standardised incidence rate of non-thumb digit amputations in 2017 (A) and percentage change in non-thumb digit amputation incidence rate from 1990 to 2017 (B).
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Figure 4
Age-standardised incidence of hand and wrist trauma by Socio-demographic Index (SDI).
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Figure 5
Causes of hand and wrist fracture (A), thumb amputation (B) and non-thumb digit amputation (C) by region.

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