In an alternative to the panel-based approach, self-reported data collected directly from affected individuals, using multi-attribute utility instruments – such as the EQ-5D standardized measures of health status – can be used to derive case-based disability weights.3 An individual’s responses to a standardized set of questions can be used to determine that individual’s generic health state and then the health states of all respondents having a particular health problem can be used to assign a disability weight to that problem. It has been suggested that such case-based disability weights should be used to quantify injury burdens.8–10 Two studies based on injury cohorts led to case-based weights that were larger than corresponding panel-based estimates, but both studies were limited by small sample sizes.6,7 The GBD 2013 study incorporated case-based weights for some injury groups but was hampered by the limited availability of case-reported data.11 As an adjunct or alternative to the use of panel-based weights in burden of disease studies, we used pooled patient-reported data, from six longitudinal injury-outcome studies, to create case-based weights for individual injury diagnosis codes and established nature-of-injury classifications.