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Reuse of single‐use devices: Protecting your reprocessing program
Author(s) -
Olsson Lory
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 1074-4797
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.20012
Subject(s) - reuse , legislature , food and drug administration , business , risk analysis (engineering) , action (physics) , disease control , computer security , public administration , environmental health , medicine , political science , computer science , engineering , law , waste management , physics , quantum mechanics
High‐profile hepatitis C outbreaks in 2008 spurred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's attention toward legislative and regulatory action in several states around the practice of reuse of single‐use devices. Promulgated in the interest of public safety, some of these new regulations and laws can have a potential impact on hospitals' ability to access third‐party reprocessing duly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.