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. 2021 Oct 14;18(20):10767. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182010767

Table 4.

Costs of allowing HCW to work (per 1000 exposed HCW).

(a) Costs at the expense of the employer (hospital)

  1. Costs of Point-of-Care Testing [TP (S) plus FN (S) plus [TP (NS)]

1000 (on day 2) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 26,880
991.911 [1000–8.089] (on day 4) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 26,662.57
957.103 [991.911–34.808] (on day 6) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 25,726.93
929.6 [957.103–27.503] (on day 8) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 24,987.65
921.008 [929.6–8.592] (on day 10) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 24,756.70
913.17 [921.008–7.838] (on day 12) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 24,546.01
909.9 [913.17–3.27](on day 14) × EUR 26.88 testing costs EUR 24,458.11
Subtotal costs: EUR 178,017.97 (±20%: EUR 142,414.38 to EUR 213,621.56)
  • 2.

    Costs due to continuation of wage for all symptomatically diseased HCW [TP (S) and FN (S)], starting from the respective day of symptoms until the end of quarantine:

7.065 infected HCW on day 2 × EUR 167.58 × 12 remaining days EUR 14,207.43
30.4 infected HCW on day 4 × EUR 167.58 × 10 remaining days EUR 50,944.32
24.02 infected HCW on day 6 × EUR 167.58 × 8 remaining days EUR 32,202.17
7.504 infected HCW on day 8 × EUR 167.58 × 6 remaining days EUR 7545.12
6.845 infected HCW on day 10 × EUR 167.58 × 4 remaining days EUR 4588.34
2.856 infected HCW on day 12 × EUR 167.58 × 2 remaining days EUR 957.22
0.956 infected HCW on day 14 × EUR 167.58 EUR 196.07
Subtotal costs: EUR 110,640.67 (±20%: EUR 88,512.54 to EUR 132,768.80)
Total cost for 1000 HCW sent to work: EUR 288,658.64 (±20%: EUR 230,926.92 to EUR 346,390.36)
Cost per exposed HCW sent to work from the hospital´s perspective: EUR 288.66 (±20%: EUR 230.93 to EUR 346.39)
(b) Costs at the expense of the taxpayer
Costs of sending asymptomatically infected HCW into isolation [TP (NS)]
1.024 × EUR 167.58 (on day 2) × 12 remaining days EUR 2059.22
4.408 × EUR 167.58 (on day 4) × 10 remaining days EUR 7386.93
3.483 × EUR 167.58 (on day 6) × 8 remaining days EUR 4669.45
1.088 × EUR 167.58 (on day 8) × 6 remaining days EUR 1093.96
0.993 × EUR 167.58 (on day 10) × 4 remaining days EUR 665.63
0.414 × EUR 167.58 (on day 12) × 2 remaining days EUR 138.76
0.177 × EUR 167.58 (on day 14) EUR 29.66
Total cost for 1000 HCW sent to work: EUR 16,043.61 (±20%: EUR 12,834.89 to EUR 19,252.33)
Cost per exposed HCW sent to work from the taxpayer´s perspective: EUR 16.04 (±20%: 12.83 to EUR 19.25)