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SPOTLIGHT: To cut costs, more hospitals re-using devices

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Created Mar 19 2008 - 7:59am

Increasingly, hospitals are recycling medical devices labeled as single-use, from scissors and scrubs to surgical blades. While this is legal--as long as certain FDA guidelines are followed in sterilizing and re-testing them--many critics still argue that this is a questionable practice at best. To date, however, the GAO has concluded that there's no evidence that such reprocessed devices create elevated health risks. Article [1]


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http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/spotlight-to-cut-costs-more-hospitals-re-using-devices/2008-03-19