Overview of total number of top three rankings by context
| Attribute | Total number of top three rankings by context | ||
| General healthcare | MRSA | Sharps injuries | |
| Likelihood | 12 | 5 | 4 |
| Financial consequences | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Health consequences | 8 | 12 | 6 |
| Voluntariness | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Timing consequences | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Preventability | 24 | 20 | 20 |
| Dreadfulness | 10 | 2 | 4 |
| Controllability | 5 | 15 | 10 |
| Trust in safety systems/devices | 6 | 12 | 9 |
| Equity of the risk | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perceived risk for the incident | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Adverse effects on individual staff | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Adverse effects on profession/professional values | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans and is especially troublesome in hospitals, where patients with open wounds, invasive devices and weakened immune systems are at greater risk of infection than the general public.