Monitoring of endoscope reprocessing: Accumulating data but best practices remain undefined

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 995-997

  Petersen, Bret T ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DETERGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; PROTEIN;

BLOOD; CLEANING; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE CLEANING BRUSH; EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NOTE; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; REPROCESSED ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; SPRAY DRYING; DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; STANDARDS;

ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84904394527     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677323     Document Type: Note

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