Reprocessing single-use devices—regulatory roles

AORN Journal,  July, 2002  by Debra Dunn

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(63.) Ibid.

(64.) "GAO/HEHS-00-123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted."

(65.) Weinberg, "Staying healthy blood money--Hospitals are reusing devices they shouldn't. How safe can that be?"

(66.) "Survey: ORs are split on reuse of single-use items," 1-16.

(67.) "Survey finds progress on outdated OR rituals," OR Manager 14 (September 1998) 1-14.

(68.) "Standards of quality," Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, http://www.amdr.org (accessed 3 June 2002).

(69.) J K Schultz, "Reservations are voiced about the reuse of single-use items," OR Manager 13 (January 1997) 1-7.

(70.) Selvey, "Medical device reprocessing: Is it good for your organization?," 22-26; "GAO/HEHS-00123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted."

(71.) "GAO/HEHS-00-123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted."

(72.) Ibid; Fielder, "Reuse of single-use medical devices," 51-53.

(73.) Canadian Healthcare Association, The Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices: Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities; "GAO/HEHS00-123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted"; English, "Reprocessing disposables: One strategy to balance cost reduction and quality patient care," 23-26.

(74.) Selvey, "Medical device reprocessing: Is it good for your organization?," 22-26.

(75.) Ibid; Canadian Healthcare Association, The Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices: Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities.

(76.) Hawkins, "Risky recycling: That `disposable' catheter may have been used before," 62-64; Weinberg, "Staying healthy blood money--Hospitals are reusing devices they shouldn't. How safe can that be?" 123-126.

(77.) "GAO/HEHS-00-123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted."

(78.) Ibid.

(79.) Hill, "Reusing single-use medical devices," 14-15.

(80.) "Reuse of disposables: Reprocessing issues taking users down `slippery slope'," OR Manager 12 (June 1996) 1, 7.

(81.) R D McCormick, "Single-use versus reusable devices," Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology 30 (September/October 1996) 407-410.

(82.) N Miner, "Reuse of single-use only devices," Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology 33 (January/February 1999) 5-6.

(83.) "GAO/HEHS-00-123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted."

(84.) English, "Reprocessing disposables: One strategy to balance cost reduction and quality patient care," 23-26.

(85.) Canadian Healthcare Association, The Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices.' Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities.

(86.) "New FDA regulation on reprocessing single-use devices: How it may affect U.S. hospitals," 185-187.

(87.) "Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted" http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgibin (accessed 23 June 2000) 1.