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New Web Site Offers Guidance and Free Resources to Help Physician Practices and Outpatient Clinics Handle Issues with Device Reuse and Patient Communications

05/20/2008

ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has created a new online resource devoted to medical device reuse issues.

The free site, located HERE, provides free access to a select number of guidance articles from ECRI Institute’s research library. The site includes recommended practices, as well as policy and procedure development tools on patient communication and device reuse issues.

“The recent situation in Las Vegas, where nearly 40,000 people were potentially exposed to hepatitis B and C viruses and HIV, has renewed public concerns about patient infection from inappropriate reuse of medical devices,” says Mark Bruley, vice president for Accident and Forensic Investigation at ECRI Institute.

“We’ve brought together a number of our resources on one site to help physicians understand the current issues and risks of reuse and to assist them in the proper management of medical device reuse.”

Source: ECRI Institute

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