title: Some public expenses in connection with occupational accidents. A follow-up study of an emergency department material.
abstract: An attempt has been made to calculate some of the public expenses arising from occupational accidents, by means of a follow-up study of an ad hoc emergency department investigation of 6 941 consecutive cases. Each accident has given rise, on average, to two visits to a physician, and to hospitalization for 1.1 days. During a one-year period, the expenses of sick benefits, hospital admissions, and medical treatment alone for the whole of Denmark amount to a minimum of 1.2 milliard 1982 Danish kroner, and at least 8 900 man-working-years have been lost.
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000191:economics*; D003718:Denmark; D005251:Fees, Medical; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D014942:Workers' Compensation