Reuse of single-use sterile medical devices decreased in Danish hospitals after report discouraged it

M Christensen; M Meyer; O B Jepsen

doi:10.2807/esm.04.10.00057-en

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Reuse of single-use sterile medical devices decreased in Danish hospitals after report discouraged it
M Christensen¹ , M Meyer² , O B Jepsen¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Statens Serum Institut, National Center for Hospital Hygiene, Copenhagen, Denmark ² Rigshospitalet, Infection Control Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Citation style for this article: Christensen M, Meyer M, Jepsen O B. Reuse of single-use sterile medical devices decreased in Danish hospitals after report discouraged it. Euro Surveill. 1999;4(10):pii=57. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.04.10.00057-en

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Abstract

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