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With proper disinfection and storage, it appears that reprocessing of gastrointestinal endoscopes is unnecessary after periods of disuse of at least 7 days and possibly up to 2 weeks. Despite recent media reports of infectious complications, society guidelines that recommend more frequent reprocessing seem to lack scientific merit and need to be revisited.

A "diagnostic criteria"-style test where the "diagnosis" is a determination of competence in a care provider, level II.