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List of works by Ben S. Cooper

"The dirty hand in the latex glove": a study of hand hygiene compliance when gloves are worn

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

An association between bacterial genotype combined with a high-vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration and risk of endocarditis in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

An augmented data method for the analysis of nosocomial infection data

scientific article

Analysis of 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1 outcomes in 19 European countries: association with completeness of national strategic plans

scientific article

Assessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in intensive care units

scientific article

Automating the Generation of Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Reports: Proof-of-Concept Study Involving Seven Hospitals in Seven Countries

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Bayesian modeling to unmask and predict influenza A/H1N1pdm dynamics in London

scientific article

Care bundles in intensive care units – Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Cleanyourhands Campaign: a critique of the critique

scientific article

Clostridium difficile in England: can we stop washing our hands?

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Clustering of antimicrobial resistance outbreaks across bacterial species in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 2 April 2013

Comparative efficacy of interventions to promote hand hygiene in hospital: systematic review and network meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Decontamination of the digestive tract and oropharynx in ICU patients

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Defining the in vivo phenotype of artemisinin-resistant falciparum malaria: a modelling approach

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Does spatial proximity drive norovirus transmission during outbreaks in hospitals?

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Early communication: does a national campaign to improve hand hygiene in the NHS work? Initial English and Welsh experience from the NOSEC study (National Observational Study to Evaluate the CleanYourHandsCampaign).

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Effect of systemic antibiotics and topical chlorhexidine on meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in intensive care unit patients

scientific article published on 16 July 2011

Efficacy and limitation of a chlorhexidine-based decolonization strategy in preventing transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit

scientific article published in January 2010

Entry screening for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or influenza: policy evaluation.

scientific article

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the diagnosis of melioidosis: better than we thought

scientific article

Estimating the cost of health care-associated infections: mind your p's and q's.

scientific article published on April 2010

Estimating the effectiveness of isolation and decolonization measures in reducing transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospital general wards.

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

Evaluating clinical trial designs for investigational treatments of Ebola virus disease

scientific article (publication date: April 2015)

Evidence for Community Transmission of Community-Associated but Not Health-Care-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Linked to Social and Material Deprivation: Spatial Analysis of Cross-sectional Data

scientific article

Fool's gold: Why imperfect reference tests are undermining the evaluation of novel diagnostics: a reevaluation of 5 diagnostic tests for leptospirosis

scientific article

Genome sequencing defines phylogeny and spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a high transmission setting

scientific article published on 9 December 2014

Hedging against antiviral resistance during the next influenza pandemic using small stockpiles of an alternative chemotherapy

scientific article (publication date: 19 May 2009)

High Prevalence of Antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative Colonization in Hospitalized Cambodian Infants

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

How to Determine the Accuracy of an Alternative Diagnostic Test when It Is Actually Better than the Reference Tests: A Re-Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests for Scrub Typhus Using Bayesian LCMs

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Impact of a structured ICU training programme in resource-limited settings in Asia

scientific article

Impact of guidelines and enhanced antibiotic stewardship on reducing broad-spectrum antibiotic usage and its effect on incidence of Clostridium difficile infection

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Increasing incidence of hospital-acquired and healthcare-associated bacteremia in northeast Thailand: a multicenter surveillance study

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Interpreting and comparing risks in the presence of competing events

scientific article published on 21 August 2014

Interventions to reduce colonisation and transmission of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in intensive care units: an interrupted time series study and cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Isolation measures in the hospital management of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): systematic review of the literature

scientific article

Isolation of patients in single rooms or cohorts to reduce spread of MRSA in intensive-care units: prospective two-centre study

scientific article published in January 2005

Laboratory and in-use assessment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus contamination of ergonomic computer keyboards for ward use.

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Linezolid versus teicoplanin in the treatment of Gram-positive infections in the critically ill: a randomized, double-blind, multicentre study.

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Long-term outcome of Q fever endocarditis

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Long-term survival after intensive care unit discharge in Thailand: a retrospective study

scientific article

More Research Is Needed to Quantify Risks, Benefits, and Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Mupirocin Usage.

scientific article

Multilevel competing risk models to evaluate the risk of nosocomial infection

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Multiple time scales in modeling the incidence of infections acquired in intensive care units

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National observational study to evaluate the "cleanyourhands" campaign (NOSEC): a questionnaire based study of national implementation

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Nested case-control studies in cohorts with competing events

scientific article published on January 2014

Pathogen population dynamics: the age of the strain

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Point-of-care universal screening for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a cluster-randomized cross-over trial.

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Positive selection and compensatory adaptation interact to stabilize non-transmissible plasmids.

scientific article

Poxy models and rash decisions

scholarly article

Preliminary analysis of the transmission dynamics of nosocomial infections: stochastic and management effects

scientific article published in October 1999

Probabilistic transmission models incorporating sequencing data for healthcare-associated Clostridioides difficile outperform heuristic rules and identify strain-specific differences in transmission

scientific article published on 14 January 2021

Quantifying HIV-1 transmission due to contaminated injections

scholarly article

Quantifying antibiotic impact on within-patient dynamics of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase resistance

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Quantifying type-specific reproduction numbers for nosocomial pathogens: evidence for heightened transmission of an Asian sequence type 239 MRSA clone

scientific article

Reactive and pre-emptive vaccination strategies to control hepatitis E infection in emergency and refugee settings: A modelling study

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Risk factors for previously unknown meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission to 13 surgical wards in Europe

scientific article published on 30 November 2012

Rotavirus within day care centres in Oxfordshire, UK: characterization of partial immunity.

scientific article published on December 2008

Screening, isolation, and decolonisation strategies in the control of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units: cost effectiveness evaluation

scientific article (publication date: 5 October 2011)

Seasonal influenza vaccination for children in Thailand: a cost-effectiveness analysis

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Simulations for Designing and Interpreting Intervention Trials in Infectious Diseases

Studies of selective decontamination

scientific article published on 01 September 2013

Successful use of feedback to improve antibiotic prescribing and reduce Clostridium difficile infection: a controlled interrupted time series

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Targeted versus universal screening and decolonization to reduce healthcare-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

The Early Transmission Dynamics of H1N1pdm Influenza in the United Kingdom

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The Feedback Intervention Trial (FIT)--improving hand-hygiene compliance in UK healthcare workers: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article

The ORION statement: guidelines for transparent reporting of Outbreak Reports and Intervention studies Of Nosocomial infection

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The ORION statement: guidelines for transparent reporting of outbreak reports and intervention studies of nosocomial infection

scientific article published on April 2007

The analysis of hospital infection data using hidden Markov models

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The impact of enhanced cleaning within the intensive care unit on contamination of the near-patient environment with hospital pathogens: a randomized crossover study in critical care units in two hospitals

scientific article published on April 2011

The impact of public health control measures during the SARS epidemic in mainland China

scientific article published in November 2009

The importance of good data, analysis, and interpretation for showing the economics of reducing healthcare-associated infection

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The role of mathematical modelling in guiding the science and economics of malaria elimination

scientific article published in December 2010

The severity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in the United States, April - July 2009

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The severity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in the United States, from April to July 2009: a Bayesian analysis

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Transmission dynamics and control of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in neonates in a developing country

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Transmission dynamics and control of severe acute respiratory syndrome

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Transmission dynamics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a medical intensive care unit in India

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Treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia

scholarly article by Martin Wolkewitz et al published October 2011 in Lancet Infectious Diseases

Understanding and managing zoonotic risk in the new livestock industries

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Use of performance feedback to increase healthcare worker hand-hygiene behaviour.

scientific article published on 4 June 2007

Using a longitudinal model to estimate the effect of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection on length of stay in an intensive care unit.

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Using a web-based application to define the accuracy of diagnostic tests when the gold standard is imperfect

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