Economic benefits of safety-engineered sharp devices in Belgium - a budget impact model

Table 5 Average indirect costs incurred per low- and high-risk NSI

Risk category	Low	High
Counselling [26, 39]	€40.27	€238.45
Staff absence [40, 41]	€22.95	€229.51
Compensation and litigation [12, 38, 42–44]	–	€376.26*
Total indirect cost per NSI	€63.22	€844.22

*Estimated based on an average of the costs reported by three English compensation cases involving a healthcare worker experiencing an NSI [42–44], weighted by the relative proportion of high-risk NSIs resulting in seroconversion to either hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV from an infected source, and converted to 2012 Euro [38].

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