{"title":"Regrading of sterile services department supervisors.","authors":"A J Grice","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sterile services management","volume":"5 4","pages":"15-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21157177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economic realities of the Health Service.","authors":"D Court","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Unit General Manager may normally be treated with total indifference or acute suspicion but anything he has to say about \"efficiency savings\" will certainly be treated with scepticism usually reserved for those claiming \"the cheque is in the post\". Staff will recognise this as another term for \"cut backs\". It may be most honest to say that since there is not enough money to cover increased demands it will have to be redistributed and this cannot be done without causing some suffering.</p>","PeriodicalId":80037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sterile services management","volume":"5 3","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21156845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care and co-ordination of the transplant programme.","authors":"W Essex","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I am concerned with transplants in general, what you and I can do about them and indeed whether we should do anything at all. Potential donors worry that if they are involved in a terminal illness, need to be put on \"a life support machine\", and are carrying a donor card, someone will turn it off before they are dead! This is far from the truth, it is more likely that if you are known to be willing to donate organs at death, the machine is likely to be left on longer than would normally be the case.</p>","PeriodicalId":80037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sterile services management","volume":"5 3","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21156847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations on a formaldehyde low-temperature steam sterilizer.","authors":"T Kuronen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Finnish hospitals, heat labile equipment is mostly sterilized by ethylene oxide (EO) gas. Formaldehyde sterilizers are rarely used. We have tested a new commercial autoclave constructed exclusively for formaldehyde and low-temperature steam (F-LTS) sterilization, offering a potentially safer and cheaper method of sterilization. Both the sterilizing efficacy of the apparatus and the levels of formaldehyde in the processed materials were studied.</p>","PeriodicalId":80037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sterile services management","volume":"5 3","pages":"16-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21155180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bowie/Dick test: an alternative way.","authors":"C E Deverill, N F Cripps, M Roberts, J Nama'h","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since notification from the DHSS that the Lantor Cube (DHSS 1986) has been accepted, and approved as equivalent to the towel pack for the daily Bowie and Dick testing of porous load autoclaves, considerable interest has been shown in cost comparison between the Lantor cube and the towel pack.</p>","PeriodicalId":80037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sterile services management","volume":"5 3","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21156843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What do economists measure?","authors":"J A Stilwell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Economics is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources between competing requirements, which in a market economy are measured in terms of finance. Competition for scarce resources is the major problem of health economics.</p>","PeriodicalId":80037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sterile services management","volume":"5 3","pages":"2-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21179183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}