Open AccessReuse of single-use sterile medical devices decreased in Danish hospitals after report discouraged it
Author(s) -
Mette Christensen,
Mechthild Meyer,
Otto Jepsen
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.04.10.00057-en
Subject(s) - danish , single use , reuse , medical device , medicine , medical emergency , engineering , waste management , biomedical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , process engineering
The extent to which sterile medical devices marked ‘for single-use’ are reused was surveyed recently in 100 hospitals in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The same method was used in a survey of Danish hospitals two years earlier. This has enabled us