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"Chance makes a football of man's life"

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

"Clean Care for All-It's in Your Hands": The 5 May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

"Clean Care for All-It's in Your Hands": The 5th of May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

"Clean care for all - It's in your hands": The May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

"Clean care for all - it's in your hands": the May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

"Clean care for all-it's in your hands": the May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization campaign

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"Clean care for all-it's in your hands"; the May 5th, 2019, World Health Organization's SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

"Infection prevention and control idea challenge" contest: a fresh view on medical education and problem solving

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

"It's in Your Hands-Prevent Sepsis in Health Care": 5 May 2018, World Health Organization (WHO) SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign

scientific article published on 02 April 2018

"It's in your hands-prevent sepsis in health care"; 5 May 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign.

scientific article published in March 2018

"It's in your hands-prevent sepsis in health care"; May 5 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign.

scientific article

"Nurses and Midwives: Clean Care Is in Your Hands": The May 5, 2020, World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

"Nurses and Midwives: Clean care is in your hands": The 5 May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

"Nurses and Midwives: clean care is in your hands": the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

"Nurses and midwives: Clean care is in your hands": The 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 05 April 2020

"Nurses and midwives: Clean care is in your hands": The May 5, 2020, World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

"Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands": the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

"Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands": the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

"Promises and limitations of a digitalized infection control program"

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

'Clean Care is Safer Care': the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006.

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

'Clean care for all - it's in your hands': the 5th May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene

scientific article

'Nurses and Midwives: clean care is in your hands': the 5 May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

'One size does not fit all' - customizing hand hygiene agents, messages, and interventions.

scientific article

1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 induces responsiveness to the chemotactic peptide f-Met-Leu-Phe in the human monocytic line U937: dissociation between calcium and oxidative metabolic responses.

scientific article

150 years since “The etiology, concept, and prophylasix of childbed fever”.

scientific article

2018 WHO hand hygiene campaign: preventing sepsis in health care and the path to universal health coverage.

scientific article

2019 WHO hand hygiene campaign and global survey: clean care for all-it's in your hands

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A new journal and new global perspective on infection control and public health ⬇️

scientific article published on January 26, 2012

A novel multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid typing of major staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements

scientific article published on July 2004

A predictive model for identifying surgical patients at risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission

scientific article published on 30 June 2008

A randomized double-blind trial of iseganan in prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article

Access to antibiotics: a safety and equity challenge for the next decade ⬇️

scientific article published on January 10, 2013

Acute necrotising gingivitis in young children from villages with and without noma in Niger and its association with sociodemographic factors, nutritional status and oral hygiene practices: results of a population-based survey

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Acute respiratory distress syndrome after bacteremic sepsis does not increase mortality

scientific article

Afghan hurdles: from signing the pledge in 2012 to hand hygiene implementation in 2014.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

African partnerships for patient safety: a vehicle for enhancing patient safety across two continents. [corrected].

scientific article published in January 2009

Age limit does not replace serologic testing for determination of immune status for measles

scientific article published on 03 July 2007

Airport malaria: mini-epidemic in Switzerland

scientific article

Alcohol-based hand rub and influenza A: the danger of publishing a flawed study with no clinical relevance

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Alcohol-based handrub improves compliance with hand hygiene in intensive care units

scientific article

Alcohol-based rubs for hand antisepsis

scientific article published in October 2008

Anaerobes in clean orthopedic surgery? Is it a problem?

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Anatomy of a successful multimodal hand hygiene campaign

scientific article published on 13 October 2012

Antibacterial efficacy of handrubbing for 15 versus 30 seconds: EN 1500-based randomized experimental study with different loads of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

Antibiotic prophylaxis before invasive dental procedures in patients with arthroplasties of the hip and knee

scientific article published on July 2008

Antibiotic resistance needs global solutions.

scientific article published in July 2014

Antimicrobial resistance in southern China: results of prospective surveillance in Dongguan city, 2017

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Antimicrobial resistance: The complex challenge of measurement to inform policy and the public

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Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum

scientific article

Antimicrobial resistance: one world, one fight!.

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals: national point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, Switzerland, 2017

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Antimicrobial-coated sutures to decrease surgical site infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Antiobiotic use among Vietnamese hospitals: a multicenter cross-sectional study

scientific article

Are there regional variations in the diagnosis, surveillance, and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

scientific article

Arterial mycotic aneurysm rupture following kidney-pancreatic transplantation with exocrine pancreatic drainage into the bladder: an unusual observation

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Assessing the Likelihood of Hand-to-Hand Cross-Transmission of Bacteria: An Experimental Study

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Assessing the burden of healthcare-associated infections through prevalence studies: what is the best method?

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Assessment of hand hygiene facilities and staff compliance in a large tertiary health care facility in northern Nigeria: a cross sectional study

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Association of secondary and polymicrobial nosocomial bloodstream infections with higher mortality

scientific article

Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Hand Hygiene Among Healthcare Workers Caring for Critically Ill Neonates

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Automatic alerts for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and control: role of a hospital information system

scientific article published on August 1996

Back to the future: rising to the Semmelweis challenge in hand hygiene

scientific article

Background and features of the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework

scientific article

Bacteremic sepsis in intensive care: temporal trends in incidence, organ dysfunction, and prognosis

scientific article

Bacterial Diversity in Oral Samples of Children in Niger with Acute Noma, Acute Necrotizing Gingivitis, and Healthy Controls ⬇️

scientific article published on March 6, 2012

Bacterial contamination of the hands of hospital staff during routine patient care

scientific article

Bacterial contamination of the hands of intensive care unit staff during respiratory tract care: preliminary results.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Bedside prediction of mortality from bacteremic sepsis. A dynamic analysis of ICU patients

scientific article

Beginning the journey of hand hygiene compliance monitoring at a 2,100-bed tertiary hospital in Vietnam

scientific article published on January 2014

Behavioural considerations for hand hygiene practices: the basic building blocks

scientific article

Blood collection guidelines for inpatients and outpatients, home-based care and long-term care facilities

scientific article published on 30 November 2019

Broadening the infection prevention and control network globally; 2017 Geneva IPC-think tank (part 3).

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Burden for the infection control programme of a European hospital of getting prepared and treat a patient (PT) with Ebola virus disease (EVD).

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Burden of bloodstream infection caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae determined using multistate modeling at a Swiss University Hospital and a nationwide predictive model

scientific article

Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Burden of healthcare-associated infections in China: results of the 2015 point prevalence survey in Dong Guan City

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Burden of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections at a Swiss University hospital: excess length of stay and costs ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2013

Calciosome, a sarcoplasmic reticulum-like organelle involved in intracellular Ca2+-handling by non-muscle cells: studies in human neutrophils and HL-60 cells

scientific article published on July 1989

Candida colonization and subsequent infections in critically ill surgical patients

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Candida colonization index and subsequent infection in critically ill surgical patients: 20 years later

scientific article

Candida infections in intensive care

scientific article published on June 10, 1995

Candidiasis among non-neutropenic patients: from colonization to infection

scientific article

Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriacae: a challenge for early detection and infection control

scientific article

Caregivers' Perceptions of Patients as Reminders to Improve Hand Hygiene

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriacae among internal medicine patients in Switzerland

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

Catheter-related infections

scientific article published in September 2004

Cefepime--assessment of its need at a tertiary care center

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Cefuroxime prophylaxis is effective in noninstrumented spine surgery: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study

scientific article published in August 2008

Central-line bundles need a multimodal implementation strategy

scientific article

Challenges, treatment strategies and clinical progression of MRSA bacteremia

scientific article

Challenging the world: patient safety and health care-associated infection

scientific article published on 5 January 2006

Chemoattractant receptor promotion of Ca2+ influx across the plasma membrane of HL-60 cells. A role for cytosolic free calcium elevations and inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate production

scientific article (publication date: 5 May 1989)

Clean Care is Safer Care: a worldwide priority

scientific article

Clean Your Hands 5th May 2017: 'Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands'.

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Clean care for all-it's in your hands: The May 5, 2019, World Health Organization's "SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands" campaign

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Clean care is safer care: from a glonal challenge to a WHO patient safety programme

scientific article

Clean care is safer care: the first global challenge of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety

scientific article published in October 2005

Clean hands reduce the burden of disease

scientific article

Clean your hands on May 5, 2017: Fight antibiotic resistance-it's in your hands

scientific article published on April 2017

Clinical and nonclinical health care workers faced a similar risk of acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection

scientific article

Clinical features and viral kinetics in a rapidly cured patient with Ebola virus disease: a case report

scientific article

Clinical implications of stenotrophomonas maltophilia resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole: a study of 69 patients at 2 university hospitals

scientific article

Cluster-randomized, crossover trial of the efficacy of plain soap and water versus alcohol-based rub for surgical hand preparation in a rural hospital in Kenya ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Cockroaches (Ectobius vittiventris) in an intensive care unit, Switzerland

scientific article published on March 2009

Commentary: hand hygiene: it's all about when and how.

scientific article published in October 2008

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Switzerland

scientific article

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: risk factors for infection, and long-term follow-up

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

Comparative analysis and validation of different assays for glycopeptide susceptibility among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

scientific article published in May 2004

Comparative efficacy of hand hygiene agents in the reduction of bacteria and viruses

scientific article published in November 2005

Comparison of national and subnational guidelines for hand hygiene

scientific article

Comparison of two storage methods for flexible, thermolabile endoscopes: is there a difference in microbiological contamination?

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Comparison of waterless hand antisepsis agents at short application times: raising the flag of concern

scientific article published in March 2003

Compliance with hand disinfection and its impact on hospital-acquired infections ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2001

Compliance with hand hygiene practice in pediatric intensive care

scientific article published in October 2001

Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program

scientific article

Computer alert and quality of care: application to the surveillance of hospital infections

scientific article

Conflicts of interest in infection prevention and control research: no smoke without fire. A narrative review

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Considerations for a WHO European strategy on health-care-associated infection, surveillance, and control

scientific article

Contamination of stethoscopes and physicians' hands after a physical examination

scientific article published in March 2014

Contour-clamped homogeneous electric field gel electrophoresis as a powerful epidemiologic tool in yeast infections

scientific article

Control of a cluster of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in neonatology

scientific article published on 15 March 2006

Control of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: where shall we send our hospital director next time?

scientific article

Correction to: Antimicrobial-coated sutures to decrease surgical site infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Correction to: Management and investigation of a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal unit in Switzerland - the role of hand hygiene and whole genome sequencing

scientific article

Correction to: Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene: a standardized approach to guide education in infection prevention and control

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Correction to: Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Correlation between plasma membrane potential and second messenger generation in the promyelocytic cell line HL-60 ⬇️

scientific article published on August 25, 1990

Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion

scientific article

Cost-effectiveness of universal MRSA screening on admission to surgery.

scientific article

Decolonization of intestinal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae with oral colistin and neomycin: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article

Deep soft tissue infections

scientific article published in April 2014

Determinants of good adherence to hand hygiene among healthcare workers who have extensive exposure to hand hygiene campaigns

scientific article published on 6 September 2007

Determinants of success and sustainability of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene promotion campaign, Italy, 2007-2008 and 2014.

scientific article

Determinants of successful mrsa decolonization among patients included in a clinical trial of polyhexanide.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries? ⬇️

scientific article published on June 18, 2012

Developed-developing country partnerships: benefits from South to North?

scientific article

Development of an evaluation framework for African-European hospital patient safety partnerships

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8 in critically ill patients admitted with suspected sepsis

scientific article

Disinfectants that do.

scientific article published in August 2000

Do different intraoperative glove practices reduce surgical site infections? A systematic review.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Does antibiotic selection impact patient outcome?

scientific article published on 27 November 2006

Does colonization with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus protect against nosocomial acquisition of methicillin-resistant S. aureus?

scientific article

Double-blind, randomized, crossover trial of 3 hand rub formulations: fast-track evaluation of tolerability and acceptability

scientific article

Duration of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 April 2017

Dynamics of bacterial hand contamination during routine neonatal care.

scientific article

Ebola in West Africa – ICAN meeting November 2014 - ICPIC Outstanding seminar series.

scientific article

Economic impact of an increased incidence of invasive mold infections (IMI).

scientific article

Educating healthcare workers to optimal hand hygiene practices: addressing the need ⬇️

scientific article published on September 21, 2010

Effect of delayed infection control measures on a hospital outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in September 2000

Effect of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by polymerase chain reaction on the duration of unnecessary preemptive contact isolation.

scientific article

Effect of vancomycin therapy for osteomyelitis on colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: lack of emergence of glycopeptide resistance

scientific article published in September 2003

Effectiveness after 5 years of the who hand hygiene promotion strategy to reduce health-care-associated infections at Hung Vuong Hospital, Vietnam.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Effectiveness of a hand hygiene promotion strategy using alcohol-based handrub in 6 intensive care units in Colombia ⬇️

scientific article published on June 2, 2011

Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Infection Control Programme

scientific article

Efficacy of a new educational tool to improve Handrubbing technique amongst healthcare workers: a controlled, before-after study

scientific article

Efficacy of chlorine solutions used for hand hygiene and gloves disinfection in Ebola settings: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Efficacy of the World Health Organization-recommended handwashing technique and a modified washing technique to remove Clostridium difficile from hands

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Eight-year sustainability of a successful intervention to prevent urinary tract infection: A mixed-methods study

scientific article

Electronic-Eye Faucets—Curse or Blessing? ⬇️

scientific article published on January 19, 2012

Emojis in public health and how they might be used for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Enhanced performance feedback and patient participation to improve hand hygiene compliance of health-care workers in the setting of established multimodal promotion: a single-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Enteral versus parenteral nutrition: no difference in the incidence of fungal infections in critically-ill patients on mechanical ventilation with selective digestive decontamination

scientific article published in January 1999

Enterococci in orthopaedic infections: Who is at risk getting infected?

scientific article published on July 2017

Enterococci in orthopedic infections: who is at risk?

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Enterococcus faecium tolerance to isopropanol: from good science to misinformation

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Environmental controls in operating theatres

scientific article

Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bloodstream infections in surgical intensive care

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Epidemiology of MRSA at the University of Geneva Hospitals

scientific article

Epidemiology of candidemia in Swiss tertiary care hospitals: secular trends, 1991-2000.

scientific article

Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results of a nation-wide survey in Switzerland.

scientific article published in May 2002

Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of systemic Candida infection in surgical patients under intensive care.

scientific article published on March 1998

Ethanol-based handrubs: Safe for patients and health care workers

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

Etiological agents of infectious diarrhea: implications for requests for microbial culture

scientific article published on June 1997

Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission

scientific article

Evaluation of patients' mask use after the implementation of cough etiquette in the emergency department

scientific article

Evaluation of rapid screening and pre-emptive contact isolation for detecting and controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in critical care: an interventional cohort study

scientific article

Evaluation of three molecular assays for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 11 April 2007

Evalutation of hand hygiene compliance in medical educational videos

scientific article

Evidence for action: a One Health learning platform on interventions to tackle antimicrobial resistance

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices

scientific article

Excess length of stay due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection at a large Swiss hospital estimated by multi-state modelling

scientific article

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in hospital food: a risk assessment

scientific article published in April 2014

Fatal concomitant nosocomial Legionnaires' disease and cytomegalovirus pneumonitis after cardiac transplantation

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Fibronectin is more active than fibrin or fibrinogen in promoting Staphylococcus aureus adherence to inserted intravascular catheters

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

Fibronectin, fibrinogen, and laminin act as mediators of adherence of clinical staphylococcal isolates to foreign material

scientific article published in October 1988

Fighting antibiotic resistance is in your hands: May 5, 2017.

scientific article published on May 2017

Fighting the good fight: the fallout of fake news in infection prevention and why context matters

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Foreign body infections due to Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published on January 2009

Frequency, mortality and risk factors of candidemia at a tertiary care hospital

scientific article

Global hand hygiene improvement progress: two surveys using the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Global implementation of WHO's multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene: a quasi-experimental study

scientific article published on 23 August 2013

Glycerol content within the WHO ethanol-based handrub formulation: balancing tolerability with antimicrobial efficacy

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of [...]

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Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force

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Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force

scientific article

Hand Antisepsis: Evaluation of a Sprayer System for Alcohol Distribution ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2003

Hand Hygiene Improvement and Sustainability: Assessing a Breakthrough Collaborative in Western Switzerland

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Hand Hygiene Revisited: Lessons from the Past and Present

scientific article

Hand Hygiene With Alcohol-Based Hand Rub: How Long Is Long Enough?

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

Hand antisepsis without decreasing efficacy by shortening the rub-in time of alcohol-based handrubs to 15 seconds

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Hand coverage by alcohol-based handrub varies: Volume and hand size matter

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Hand hygiene - social network analysis of peer-identified and management-selected change agents

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Hand hygiene among physicians: performance, beliefs, and perceptions

scientific article

Hand hygiene and healthcare system change within multi-modal promotion: a narrative review.

scientific article published on February 2013

Hand hygiene and the novel coronavirus pandemic: The role of healthcare workers

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Hand hygiene campaigns in a low resource context: a Vietnam perspective

scientific article

Hand hygiene electronic monitoring: Are we there yet?

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

Hand hygiene in hospitals: anatomy of a revolution

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Hand hygiene in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 09 June 2019

Hand hygiene mantra: teach, monitor, improve, and celebrate.

scientific article

Hand hygiene must be enabled and promoted

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Hand hygiene myths.

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Hand hygiene practices and adherence determinants in surgical wards across Europe and Israel: A multicenter observational study

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Hand hygiene promotion and the participation of infection control link nurses: an effective innovation to overcome campaign fatigue

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

Hand hygiene promotion delivered by change agents-Two attitudes, similar outcome

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Hand hygiene-beliefs or science?

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Hand hygiene: From research to action

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Hand hygiene: Sounds easy, but not when it comes to implementation

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Hand hygiene: improved standards and practice for hospital care

scientific article

Hand-cleansing during postanesthesia care

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Handrubbing with sprayed alcohol-based hand rub: an alternative method for effective hand hygiene

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Health care workers' hand contamination levels and antibacterial efficacy of different hand hygiene methods used in a Vietnamese hospital

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Health-care associated infection in Africa

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Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review

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Health-care-associated infections--Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Healthcare associated bloodstream infections – secular trends of 8 years hospital-wide surveillance in a tertiary care university hospital

scientific article

Healthcare-associated infection in developing countries: simple solutions to meet complex challenges

scientific article

Healthcare-associated infection: moving behind headlines to clinical solutions

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

Healthcare-associated infections are associated with insufficient dietary intake: an observational cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Healthcare-associated infections in neonates

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Healthcare-associated infections: think globally, act locally

scientific article published on October 2008

Healthcare-associated sepsis and the role of clean hands: When we do not see the trees for the forest.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

High proportion of healthcare-associated urinary tract infection in the absence of prior exposure to urinary catheter: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 7 February 2013

Home deliveries in limited resource environments

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus

scientific article

Hospital patient safety situational analyses: Cameroon, Mali and Senegal

scientific article

Hospital-wide multidisciplinary, multimodal intervention programme to reduce central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infection

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Hospital-wide surveillance of catheter-related bloodstream infection: from the expected to the unexpected

scientific article

Hospital-wide survey of the use of central venous catheters ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Host factors selectively increase staphylococcal adherence on inserted catheters: a role for fibronectin and fibrinogen or fibrin

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

How to deal with a clustering effect in the assessment of a hand hygiene improvement strategy implemented worldwide?

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Identifying the hospitalized patient at risk for nosocomial bloodstream infection: a population-based study.

scientific article published in January 1997

Ignác Semmelweis-celebrating a flawed pioneer of patient safety

scientific article

Impact and pattern of gram-negative bacteraemia during 6 y at a large university hospital

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Impact of Methicillin Resistance on the Outcome of Patients With Bacteremia Caused by Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

scientific article published on January 26, 1998

Impact of a prevention strategy targeted at vascular-access care on incidence of infections acquired in intensive care

scientific article

Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study

scientific article

Impact of enteral versus parenteral nutrition on the incidence of fungal infections: a retrospective study in ICU patients on mechanical ventilation with selective digestive decontamination

scientific article published in August 2004

Impact of immunomodulating therapy on morbidity in patients with severe sepsis

scientific article

Impact of observation and analysis methodology when reporting hand hygiene data

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Impact of participation in a surgical site infection surveillance network: results from a large international cohort study

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Impact of the first hand sanitizing relay world record on compliance with hand hygiene in a hospital

scientific article published on March 2015

Impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia on resource utilization and patient outcome

scientific article

Implementation of a patient participation strategy in a randomized controlled hand hygiene promotion study – a mixed-method qualitative and quantitative evaluation

scientific article

Implementation of an educational intervention among Iranian hajj pilgrims for the prevention of influenza-like illness

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Implementation of infection control best practice in intensive care units throughout Europe: a mixed-method evaluation study.

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Implementation of infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals in Mainland China - a systematic review

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Implementation of the Infection Prevention and Control Core Components at the National Level: A Global Situational Analysis

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Implementation research for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections; 2017 Geneva infection prevention and control (IPC)-think tank (part 1).

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Implementing infection prevention practices across European hospitals: an in-depth qualitative assessment

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Importance of pre-existing co-morbidities for prognosis of septicemia in critically ill patients

scientific article published on January 1993

Improving adherence to hand hygiene practice: a multidisciplinary approach

scientific article

Improving compliance with hand hygiene in hospitals

scientific article

Improving hand hygiene compliance in healthcare settings using behavior change theories: reflections

scientific article

Improving the knowledge and adherence of nursing staff to infection control ecommendations: a quality improvement pilot program.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Improving vaccination against seasonal influenza among healthcare workers, 1994-2015.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

In vitro evaluation of the tuberculocidal property of essential oils

scientific article

In vitro evidence for the anti-staphylococcal activity of a cationic polymer compound–preliminary results.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

In-hospital transfer is a risk factor for invasive filamentous fungal infection among hospitalized patients with hematological malignancies: a matched case-control study

scientific article published on March 2015

Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy and its effect on survival in a clinical trial of immunomodulating therapy for severe sepsis ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Incidence of Propionibacterium acnes infection in orthopedic and trauma surgery.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Increasing Bacteremia Due to Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: Fiction or Reality? ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Indicators of long-term sustainability of hand hygiene improvement and barriers in healthcare settings worldwide

scientific article

Individualized catheter surveillance among neonates: a prospective, 8-year, single-center experience.

scientific article

Infection Control in the ICU ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2001

Infection Prevention Research in Europe: Recent Advances and Future Priorities ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Infection and rejection in liver transplant patients: a 10-year Swiss single-centre experience

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Infection control and hospital epidemiology outside the United States

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Infection control and quality health care in the new millennium

scientific article

Infection control as a major World Health Organization priority for developing countries

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

Infection control in Switzerland

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Infection control in countries with limited resources

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

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