Global Burden of Bone and Joint Infections, 1990–2021

A dataset from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project analyzing deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributable to bone and joint infections from 1990 to 2021. The data is stratified by sex, age, region, pathogen, and antimicrobial resistance. It was authored by Ke Xu and published on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling temporal trends in bone and joint infection mortality based on estimated annual percentage change data
• Analyzing geographical inequalities in disease burden across global regions mentioned in the description
• Studying the contribution of specific pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus to health loss
• Assessing the impact of antimicrobial resistance on mortality and DALYs for key bacteria

Strengths

• Provides specific mortality and DALY figures for 1990 and 2021, showing a 228% and 291% increase respectively
• Includes a 32-year time series from 1990 to 2021 for longitudinal analysis
• Data is stratified by multiple dimensions including sex, age, region, and pathogen

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The dataset is small (96.6 KB), indicating a limited scope, likely a summary table

Provenance

Source

Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project

Collection Method

Systematic analysis of extracted data using estimated annual percentage change and Bayesian age-period-cohort models

Time Range

1990 to 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 05:45:53; freshness should be verified

Geography

Global, regional, and national levels