Hospitals are reusing one-time-use products. “The Food and Drug Administration regulates the practice, and many hospital administrators say reusing single-use devices is not only cost-effective but also promotes healthy competition with device makers and poses no threat to patients because the instruments are cleaned with such care that they are as good as new.”
Hospitals are reusing one-time-use products
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