Global Burden of Bone and Joint Infections by Pathogen and Resistance, 1990–2021

1990 to 2021 data on the global, regional, and national burden of bone and joint infections, extracted from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project. The dataset includes deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) stratified by sex, age, region, pathogen, and antimicrobial resistance. It was authored by Ke Xu and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in bone and joint infection mortality based on the 1990–2021 time series.
• Compare disease burden inequalities across global regions based on the geographical stratification.
• Identify leading pathogens responsible for health loss based on the reported pathogen spectrum.
• Assess the growing impact of antimicrobial resistance on mortality based on the resistance-associated burden data.

Strengths

• Provides a 32-year time series (1990–2021) for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes multiple stratification layers: sex, age, region, pathogen, and antimicrobial resistance.
• Reports specific metrics: deaths increased by 228% and DALYs by 291% over the study period.

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 (21.1 KB), suggesting it contains summary statistics rather than granular case-level data.

Provenance

Source

Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project

Collection Method

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

Time Range

1990–2021

Freshness

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

Geography

Global, regional, and national levels