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Table 2 SSD information and available equipment in 4 rural hospitals

From: Assessment of laparoscopic instrument reprocessing in rural India: a mixed methods study

General

Hospitals n=

Record keeping of sterile processing

3

Hospitals with a SSD

2

Area with dirty to clean processing

2

instruments are processed in the SSD

1

Periodic review of sterile processing

0

Product documentation are available

0

There is a procedure for new materials/instruments

0

Disassembly instructions for instruments are available

0

There is a written protocol for manual cleaning

0

There is a protocol for repair of instruments

0

Laparoscopic instruments are processed in the SSD

0