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What Is Your Best Advice for Buying Wound Closure Devices?

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Use peer pressure
We have standardized our suture by specialty rather than by physician preference. If a surgeon wants to change, then he must get the approval of all surgeons in that specialty, and they all must change. This has worked particularly well at our center because our physician-owners support our efforts to keep costs low.

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