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Data collected from clinical engineering departments in Canada, the USA, the European Economic Community and two Nordic countries, Sweden and Finland, have led to an evaluation of their functional involvement in their healthcare institutions and of the level of recognition which they have achieved.
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Frize, M. Results of an international survey of clinical engineering departments. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 28, 153–159 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02441771
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