Table 6.

Average personnel-related reprocessing costs ($US). All manual reprocessing is carried out by trained cleaning personnel at Odense University Hospital. Times spent on reprocessing were obtained by observing several reprocessing procedures

Job description related to reprocessing	Average minutes spent on reprocessing after each procedure	Average cost of reprocessing
Transportation of bronchoscopes	0.5	0.29
Manual precleaning	6	3.53
Cleaning of worktable and table cart	1	0.59
Placement in drying cabinets	1.5	0.88
Daily cleaning of automated endoscope reprocessor	6	3.53