Study Up: Article on Point-of-Use Cleaning and Decontamination Offers Rundown of Best Practices

​Risk managers can increase their understanding of decontamination and sterilization through Decontamination 101: Point-of-Use Cleaning, Containment and Transporting Contaminated Surgical Instruments, published in the February 2019 issue of The Surgical Technologist. The article discusses why point-of-use cleaning and decontamination is vital to patient safety, and discusses the Food and Drug Administration's six criteria for providing written reprocessing instructions.