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 2 Percentages of reprocessing cycles including medical devices with different designs and materials

Design and material of reprocessed medical devices	Estimate (percentage of reprocessing cycles)	Standard Error	95% Confidence Interval
Design and material of reprocessed medical devices	Estimate (percentage of reprocessing cycles)	Standard Error	Lower	Upper
Designs^a
Solid, hollow	100.0%	0.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Pin and box joints	100.0%	0.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Channel, tubing	46.4%	5.0%	35.6%	57.6%
Porous	91.9%	3.4%	80.6%	96.9%
Material
Metal	100.0%	0.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Non-metal	92.4%	3.4%	80.5%	97.3%

^a Examples of medical devices with different designs - Solid, hollow: bowl, dish, scalpel handle; Pin and box joints: scissors, forceps; Channel, tubing: urinary catheter, cannulated screws, dental hand piece; Porous: Cotton, gauze, linens

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