The provision of adequate laundry services is a fundamental requirement of direct patient care and a major feature among a hospital's many activities which contribute to its commitment to meet Pateint's Chaner standards of quality services. "Hospital Laundry Arrangements for Used And Infected Linen" sets out the recommended procedures,'tohelp meet this commitment. In particular it covers the handling and laundering of linen: the impomnce of securing the disinfection of used and infected linen; and the basic principles of infection
The handling of soiled, foul and infected linen at hospitals
Linen is normally classified into main three categories: Soiled linen: normal used linen. Foul linen: linen requiring sluicing before laundering (such as babies' nappies) Infected linen: linen that may require sluicing and disinfection before final laundering
eight out of the 9 trainees prescribed the antibiotics, whereas 7 out of the 12 GPs did so. On the basis of a Bayesian analysis, these results yield reasonable statistical evidence in favor of the notion that experienced GPs are more likely to withstand the pressure to prescribe antibiotics than trainee doctors.
