1. AORN Standards of Practice (Denver: Association of Operating Room Nurses, 1978) 3–1—3–23; “AAMI standard of practice: Good hospital practice: steam sterilization and sterility assurance (proposed),” Association of the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington, Va, 1979; “Guidelines for the hospital central service department,” American Society for Hospital Central Service Personnel of the American Hospital Association, Chicago, 1978.
2. William C Beck, “True value and cost effectiveness of surgical barriers,”Surgical Team 3 (May-June 1974) 21; Nathan Belkin, “The other side of the drape: Reusable fabrics,”AORN Journal 28 (October 1978) 588–592; Harold Laufman, “Moist bacterial strike-through of woven and nonwoven materials,” speech delivered at the AAMI 13th Annual Meeting, 1978; William C Beck, “Barrier standards are statements of principle,”AORN Jounral 21 (May 1975) 983–984; “Factors for using resuables, disposables,”AORN Journal 23 (March 1976) 708–710; G B Ha'Eri, A M Wiley, “Wound contamination through drapes and gowns,” presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, February 1979; Janet Hartman, “Disposable drapes, one team's experience,”The Surgical Team 3 (September-October 1974) 15–18; J Moylan, B Kennedy, “Wound infections—are there controllable factors?” paper presented at APIC Annual Meeting, Houston, May 10, 1979; J Moylan, E Balish, J Chan, “Intraoperative bacterial transmision,”Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 141 (November 1975) 731–733; James E Williamson, “Linting: A literature review,” presented at the INDA Technical Symposium, March 27 to 29, 1978; “Growing debate: Paper vs cotton OR gowns,”Purchachasing Administration 3 (April 1979) 1 +; G Huebner, G Olderman, “Wood fiber contamination of reusable cotton laparotomy pads,”Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 148 (June 1979) 887–889; “Switch to disposables saves $100.000,”Hospital Infection Control (March 1979) 35.
3. Laufman, “Moist bacterial Sticke-through.”
4. Interviews with representatives of the Du Pont Corp, Kimberly Clark, Johnson & Johnson, and the Bard Corp.
5. Ha'Eri, Wiley, “Wond contamination”; Hartman, “Disposable drapes, one team's experience,” 15–18; Moylan, Kennedy, “Wound infections”; Moylan, Balish, Chan, “Intraoperative bacterial trasmission,” 731–733; “Switch to disposables saves $100,000,” 35.