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Operator-first selection
Coverage starts with a hospital or health-system sterile-processing leader’s recurring operating question, not with a vendor announcement.
Editorial charter
Built for the operating question.
The Sterile Processing Brief is an independent source-led publication for hospital and health-system sterile-processing directors and managers who help specify, evaluate, recommend, budget, or select equipment and services.
The five-minute format is a concise editorial target. Read times vary by reader and issue.
Reader promise
What changed. Why it matters. What to verify next.
The publication is designed to compress fragmented official resources, standards-body updates, research, association material, and established trade reporting into a concise operating brief.
It does not replace standards, IFUs, facility policy, accreditation guidance, clinical judgment, or legal advice. It avoids prescriptive language when a local or expert determination is required.
Six controls
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Primary-source visibility
Every public story references at least one structured source record with publisher, URL, type, retrieval date, authority suggestion, and rights note.
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Tiered human review
Routine facts receive editor review; operating interpretations require domain review; litigation, disputes, comparative claims, regulated sponsor claims, and other high-risk material escalate further.
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Separate approvals
Web approval and email approval are independent human decisions. A prepared or scheduled record does not publish itself.
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Corrections without silence
Material corrections receive authoritative records, timestamps, explanations, and links to affected stories and issues.
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A real sponsor firewall
Sponsors cannot select, suppress, preview, approve, or veto editorial coverage. Paid units are labeled and inventory is capped.
Monday
Triage approved feeds and the prospective-source log. Automation may suggest and deduplicate.
Tuesday–Thursday
Humans open original sources, select, draft, review, and resolve sponsor conflicts.
Friday
Separate web and email approvals, followed by human-initiated release.