Recycling unused, opened sterile supplies - Clinical Innovations

AORN Journal,  Jan, 2003  by Debra Dunn

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NOTES

(1.) "GAO/HEHS-00-123--Single-use medical devices: Little available evidence of harm from reuse, but oversight warranted," US General Accounting Office, June 2000, http://www.gao.gov/ (accessed 4 Dec 2002).

(2.) W H Rosenblatt, D G Silverman, "Institutionalized recovery of surplus operating room materials," Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 95 (June 1995) 1329-1330.

DEBRA DUNN, RN, MBA, CNOR, is the nurse manager, OR, at St Joseph 's Wayne Hospital, Wayne, NJ

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