Many EUROCOST and GBD injury groups combine several types of injury. The combination of several conditions into a single group – for which a single weight is estimated – is not problematic if the outcomes of the combined conditions are similar. Injuries of a single nature from a single body region, such as fractures within the shoulder, are often bundled together in this manner. However, our new disability weights for individual ICD-10 diagnosis codes (Table 7 and Table 8; available at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/10/16-172155) indicate considerable heterogeneity in disability experienced by patients with fractures in the same body region or even the same bone. For example, the new weights indicate that clavicle fractures have a much lower disability weight than fractures of the humerus or scapula and that fractures of the distal radius are less disabling than fractures of the proximal radius.