History and development of national burden of disease assessment in Australia

Table 2 Summary of quality index assessment, ABDS 2015

	YLD		Risk factors
	Number of diseases	% of diseases	Number of risk factors	% of risk factors
Dimension 1 - data
A - Highly relevant—estimate was derived from comprehensive and highly relevant data	73	37.6	3	16.7
B - Relevant	45	23.2	10	55.6
C - Moderately relevant/accurate—estimate was derived from reasonably comprehensive and relevant data	45	23.2	3	16.7
D - Somewhat relevant	29	14.9	1	5.6
E - Questionable relevance—use with caution, as estimate was derived from less comprehensive or relevant data	2	1.0	1	5.6
Total	194	100.0	18	100.0
Dimension 2 - methods
A - Highly accurate—no data transformation was required	56	28.9	2	11.1
B - Accurate	38	19.6	7	38.9
C - Moderately accurate—moderate transformations required, taking into account known trends in the underlying data, such as over time or age-distributions	61	31.4	6	33.3
D - Somewhat accurate	35	18.0	1	5.6
E - Questionable accuracy—use with caution, moderate transformations required with trends unknown or unaccounted for	4	2.1	0	0.0
Unable to be assigned	0	0.0	2	11.1
Total	194	100.0	18	100.0

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