title: Everything starts with a risk rate. Cleansing, disinfection and sterilisation techniques.
abstract: To reduce rates of infection, infection control procedures should be constantly updated. By identifying high, medium and low risk categories of equipment, an infection control programme can target procedures to specific items of use.
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authors.lastname: Thomlinson
mesh_terms: D004203:Disinfection / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016357:Infection Control Practitioners / Q000379:methods*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods*