title: How to select and evaluate new products on the market.
abstract: New devices and products often promise to protect health-care workers and patients from transmission of viral infections. These need to be evaluated carefully for efficacy, applicability, and cost in an objective, structured manner.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011482:Protective Devices / Q000191:economics