Compliance of primary and secondary care public hospitals with standard practices for reprocessing and steam sterilization of reusable medical devices in Nepal: findings from nation-wide multicenter clustered audits

Table 1 Sample sizes for auditing medical device reprocessing cycles in different hospital types

Hospital type	Number of hospitals	Randomly sampled hospitals	Consecutive reprocessing cycles audited in each hospital	Reprocessing cycles audited in each hospital type
Zonal hospital	10	2	12	24
District hospital	62	9	15	135
District-level hospital	16	2	15	30
Total number of reprocessing cycles audited				189

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