Whither hospital linen? Two centre observational study of alien hospital linen.

An efficient linen service is a priority for any institutional healthcare system. Many sheets and pillowcases disappear, and pilfering has been considered as one explanation. In an effort to designate ownership and presumably to prevent theft, some units have stamped their laundry with an identifiable trust logo. We noticed that some hospital linen bore logos signifying a distant origin, and we used these marks to explore the movement of such items.