Multisociety guideline on reprocessing flexible GI endoscopes: 2011

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 527-537

  Petersen, Bret T ^a   Chennat, Jennifer ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^a   Cotton, Peter B ^a   Greenwald, David A ^a   Kowalski, Thomas E ^a   Krinsky, Mary L ^a   Park, Walter G ^a   Pike, Irving M ^a   Romagnuolo, Joseph ^a   Rutala, William A ^b  

^a ASGE Quality Assurance in Endoscopy Committee ^*  (United States)

^b Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

CROSS INFECTION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; STERILIZATION;

EID: 79957963760     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660676     Document Type: Article

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