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CDC (Page 92)
Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/guidelines/Disinfection_Nov_2008.pdf
19. Quality Control
a. Provide comprehensive and intensive training for all staff assigned to reprocess semicritical and
critical medical/surgical instruments to ensure they understand the importance of reprocessing these
instruments. To achieve and maintain competency, train each member of the staff that reprocesses
semicritical and/or critical instruments as follows: 1) provide hands-on training according to the
institutional policy for reprocessing critical and semicritical devices; 2) supervise all work until
competency is documented for each reprocessing task; 3) conduct competency testing at beginning of
employment and regularly thereafter (e.g., annually); and 4) review the written reprocessing instructions
regularly to ensure they comply with the scientific literature and the manufacturers’ instructions. Category
IB. 6-8, 108, 114, 129, 155, 725, 813, 819
B. Rankings
Category IA. Strongly recommended for implementation and strongly supported by well-designed
experimental, clinical, or epidemiologic studies.
Category IB. Strongly recommended for implementation and supported by some experimental, clinical, or
epidemiologic studies, and by a strong theoretical rationale.
Category IC. Required by state or federal regulations. Because of state differences, readers should not
assume that the absence of an IC recommendation implies the absence of state regulations.
Category II. Suggested for implementation and supported by suggestive clinical or epidemiologic studies
or by a theoretical rationale.
No recommendation. Unresolved issue. These include practices for which insufficient evidence or no
consensus exists regarding efficacy.
Medicare/ Medicaid (Commercial) Hospital Acquired Infections costs to be
covered by hospital
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Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/guidelines/Disinfection_Nov_2008.pdf
19. Quality Control
a. Provide comprehensive and intensive training for all staff assigned to reprocess semicritical and
critical medical/surgical instruments to ensure they understand the importance of reprocessing these
instruments. To achieve and maintain competency, train each member of the staff that reprocesses
semicritical and/or critical instruments as follows: 1) provide hands-on training according to the
institutional policy for reprocessing critical and semicritical devices; 2) supervise all work until
competency is documented for each reprocessing task; 3) conduct competency testing at beginning of
employment and regularly thereafter (e.g., annually); and 4) review the written reprocessing instructions
regularly to ensure they comply with the scientific literature and the manufacturers’ instructions. Category
IB. 6-8, 108, 114, 129, 155, 725, 813, 819
B. Rankings
Category IA. Strongly recommended for implementation and strongly supported by well-designed
experimental, clinical, or epidemiologic studies.
Category IB. Strongly recommended for implementation and supported by some experimental, clinical, or
epidemiologic studies, and by a strong theoretical rationale.
Category IC. Required by state or federal regulations. Because of state differences, readers should not
assume that the absence of an IC recommendation implies the absence of state regulations.
Category II. Suggested for implementation and supported by suggestive clinical or epidemiologic studies
or by a theoretical rationale.
No recommendation. Unresolved issue. These include practices for which insufficient evidence or no
consensus exists regarding efficacy.
Medicare/ Medicaid (Commercial) Hospital Acquired Infections costs to be
covered by hospital
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/press/factsheet.asp?
Counter=3227&intNumPerPage=10&checkDate=&checkKey=&srchType=1&numDays=3500&srchOpt=0&
srchData=&keywordType=All&chkNewsType=6&intPage=&showAll=&pYear=&year=&desc=&cboOrder=da
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