TY - JOUR AU - Sopwith, Will AU - Hart, Tony AU - Garner, Paul PY - 2002 DA - 2002/03/27 TI - Preventing infection from reusable medical equipment: a systematic review JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 4 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) had eight sets of conflicting recommendations for decontaminating medical equipment. We conducted a systematic review of observational studies to assist WHO in reconciling the various guidelines. This paper summarises the methods developed and illustrates the results for three procedures – alcohol, bleach and povidone iodine. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-2-4 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-2-4 ID - Sopwith2002 ER -