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Hospital reusable medical equipment (RME) includes any items that are intended to be reprocessed and reused indefinitely, including surgical instruments, dental equipment, endoscopes, and others. Such equipment represent a significant portion of a hospital's inventory costs and recently have generated significant patient cross-contamination concerns due to reprocessing cleaning failures. This paper discusses recent applications of industrial and systems engineering (ISyE) methods within healthcare organizations to help manage, understand, and improve RME processes, including quality control (QC), reliability, patient safety, facility layout, queuing networks, and inventory management models. Several examples demonstrate the value of these approaches for improved reprocessing management of RME technology.

Hospital reusable medical equipment (RME) include any items that are intended to be reprocessed and reused indefinitely, including surgical instruments, dental equipment, endoscopes, and others. Such equipment represent a significant portion of a hospital’s inventory costs and recently have generated significant patient cross-contamination concerns due to reprocessing cleaning failures. This chapter discusses recent applications of industrial and systems engineering (ISyE) methods within healthcare organizations to help manage, understand, and improve RME processes, including quality control, reliability, patient safety, facility layout, queueing networks, and inventory management models. Several examples demonstrate the value of these approaches for improved reprocessing management of RME technology.

This paper discusses the critical role of a learning trajectory in teaching mathematics using realistic mathematics education (RME) approach. The first part will present a brief history of RME and how RME was adopted into the Indonesian context. It is followed by a discussion of some of the principles and characteristics of RME. Furthermore, it is explained the learning trajectory, hypothetical learning trajectory (HLT), and how the principles and characteristics of RME are integrated inti HLT in learning mathematics. In the next section, the development of HLT through design research is discussed, and in the last section, some examples of HLT are given and their impact on students’ mathematical abilities.