BCoDE toolkit

The BCoDE toolkit is a stand-alone software application which allows calculation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of a selection of 117 communicable diseases and six healthcare-associated syndromes from those listed in Decision 2119/98/EC.

Contributors: Alessandro Cassini (ECDC) and Mirjam Kretzschmar (RIVM) led the development of this toolkit with contributions from Edoardo Colzani (ECDC), Dietrich Plass (UBA), Marie-Josee Mangen (UMCU), Alies van Lier (RIVM) and Scott McDonald (RIVM).

  • ECDC: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • RIVM: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands
  • UMCU: University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • UBA: German Environment Agency

All disability weights present in the models of this toolkit are derived from the following publication:
Haagsma JA, Maertens de Noordhout C, Polinder S, Vos T, Havelaar AH, Cassini A, Devleesschauwer B, Kretzschmar ME, Speybroeck N, Salomon JA. Assessing disability weights based on the responses of 30,660 people from four European countries. Population Health Metrics 2015; 13: 10.

Suggested citation

ECDC BCoDE toolkit [software application]: Version
Solna: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; 2020.
Available from: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/toolkit-application-calculate-dalys


Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following ECDC colleagues for their valuable scientific input in building the outcome trees: Zero Akyol, Andrew Amato, Sabrina Bacci, Julien Beauté, Ida Czumbel, Niklas Danielsson, Birgitta de Jong, Erika Duffell, Johan Giesecke, Karin Haar, Janusz Janiec, Csaba Ködmön, Piotr Kramarz, Otilia Mardh, Guido Maringhini, Dominique Monnet, Gordon Nichols, Taina Niskanen, Lucia Pastore Celentano, Pasi Penttinen, Anastasia Pharris, Alessandro Pini, Diamantis Plachouras, Emmanuel Robesyn, Ettore Severi, Gianfranco Spiteri, Carl Suetens, Johanna Takkinen, Lara Tavoschi, Wim Van Bortel, Marieke van der Werf, Eva Warns-Petit, Therese Westrell, Robert Whittaker, Herve Zeller.


Disclaimer

This tool is a product of ECDC and is therefore subject to a disclaimer, copyright and limited reproduction notices and rules related to personal data protection. For details, please see: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/pages/legalnotice.aspx.

This product has been developed by Daniel Lewandowski (NextPage Software)
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