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A review of Spaulding's classification system for effective cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices: viewed through a modern-day lens that will inform and enable future sustainability
(Elsevier, 2023-03-22)
Despite advances in medicine and innovations in many underpinning fields including disease prevention and control,
the Spaulding classification system, originally proposed in 1957, remains widely used for defining the ...
A proposed cleaning classification system for reusable medical devices to complement the Spaulding classification
(Elsevier, 2023-12-14)
A central tenet in infection prevention is the application of the Spaulding classification system for the safe use of medical devices. Initially defined in the 1950’s, this system defines types of devices and surfaces as ...