Socio-economic assessment of dog population management systems: a scoping review [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionDog Population Management (DPM) systems primarily aim to reduce the free-roaming dog population, improve the health and welfare of humans and dogs, and foster their peaceful coexistence.
Rabina Ghimire +6 more
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Costs involved in compliance with new endoscope reprocessing guidelines [PDF]
Clinical EndoscopyBackground/Aims In March 2022, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) released the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/AAMI ST91:2021, their latest update on comprehensive, flexible, and semirigid endoscope ...
David Hoffman, Christina Cool
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The Economics of Autoclave-Based Sterilization: Experience from Central Sterile Supply Department of a Cancer Center in Eastern India [PDF]
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2016 Debabrata Basu +5 more
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Biological Stability of Water-Based Cutting Fluids: Progress and Application
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2022 The application of cutting fluid in the field of engineering manufacturing has a history of hundreds of years, and it plays a vital role in the processing efficiency and surface quality of parts.
Lizhi Tang +13 more
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Mobile phone intervention for Sri Lankan mushroom producers [PDF]
AAOU Journal, 2014 It is well-known that traditional methods of technology dissemination are not cost-effective; and that extension agencies are limited very much by personnel resources in approaching the clientele they need to contact.
Mahinda Wijeratne, Nilantha De Silva
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Evaluation of extracellular polymeric substances extracted from waste activated sludge as a renewable corrosion inhibitor [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Waste activated sludge (WAS) has recently gained attention as a feedstock for resource recovery. The aim of this study is to investigate the corrosion inhibition efficiencies of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extracted from WAS ...
Liew Chien Go +3 more
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester +16 more
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2020 Introduction: There has been a global trend towards individually packaged screws for orthopaedic operations. Traditional practice makes use of screw caddies that require re-sterilization.
Andrew M Suchowersky +3 more
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Reprocessing and reuse of urological armamentarium: How correct are we!
Urology Annals, 2017 Healthcare is expensive for a large proportion of the population in spite of high per capita income and good health insurance penetration. In an effort to reduce cost of the procedure, reprocessing of devices was started in the late 1970s.
Krutik Vipulbhai Raval +4 more
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An economic analysis of the benefits of sterilizing medical instruments in low-temperature systems instead of steam [PDF]
American Journal of Infection Control, 2017 Hydrogen peroxide-based, low-temperature sterilization has been shown to do less damage to medical instruments than steam autoclaves. However, low-temperature systems are more expensive to run. Higher costs need to be balanced against savings from reduced repair costs to determine value for money when choosing how to sterilize certain instruments ...
McCreanor, Victoria, Graves, Nicholas
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