The results of our analysis indicated that all categories of injury treated via hospital admission – and most categories of injury treated only in emergency departments – were associated with persistent measurable disability. They also provided evidence of long-term disability for several injury groups where specific long-term weights were not provided by the GBD 2013 study. Similarly, where the GBD 2013 study provided long-term weights only for so-called untreated cases – for example for cases of fracture of the femur, radius or ulna – the corresponding new weights were relatively high, even though the new weights were based on cases recruited directly from health-care services in high-income countries that presumably, had access to relatively well resourced treatment.