New Mayo Clinic Proceedings Study Finds Single Use Barriers Clinically Superior to Disposable Stethoscopes Auscultations using professional stethoscopes with disk cover barriers from AseptiScope resulted in 100% diagnostic accuracy and no loss of sound amplitude Auscultations employing disposable stethoscopes produced an overall error rate of nearly 11% in clinical diagnosis Compared to disposable stethoscopes, disk cover barriers from AseptiScope are cost-effective, clinically superior, and physician-preferred
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A study described in a letter to the editor in the January issue of
Mayo Clinic Proceedings entitled Aseptic Disposable Stethoscope Barrier: Acoustically Invisible and Superior to Disposable Stethoscopes