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List of works by Mary-Louise McLaws

"If it's a broad spectrum, it can shoot better": inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in Cambodia

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

A highly precautionary doffing sequence for health care workers after caring for wet Ebola patients to further reduce occupational acquisition of Ebola.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

A statewide approach to systematising hand hygiene behaviour in hospitals: clean hands save lives, part I

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

A tsunami related tetanus epidemic in Aceh, Indonesia.

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AIDS quiz results: knowledge and risk practices of women attending 24-hour clinics

scientific article published on 01 February 1988

ASID/ACIPC position statement - Infection control for patients with Clostridium difficile infection in healthcare facilities

scientific article published on 17 November 2018

ASID/AICA position statement – Infection control guidelines for patients with Clostridium difficile infection in healthcare settings

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An audit of contact tracing activities and records for chlamydia in an urban sexual health clinic

scientific article published in May 2006

An automated hand hygiene training system improves hand hygiene technique but not compliance

scientific article published on 6 June 2015

An average hand hygiene day for nurses and physicians: The burden is not equal

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An hypothesis of the "middle model" concept

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

An investigation of an outbreak of hepatitis C virus infections in a low-resourced hemodialysis unit in Vietnam.

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Antibiotic prescribing practices: A national survey of Cambodian physicians.

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Antibiotics: practice and opinions of Cambodian commercial farmers, animal feed retailers and veterinarians.

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Antimicrobial susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and molecular epidemiology of meticillin-resistant S. aureus isolated from Australian hospital inpatients: Report from the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance 2011 Staphylococcus aureus S

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Antimicrobial susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2009: report from the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Assessment of injection practice in primary health care facilities of Shiraz, Iran

scientific article published on 7 January 2014

Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding isolation precautions among Iranian healthcare workers

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Attitudes towards and evaluation of medical emergency teams: a survey of trainees in intensive care medicine.

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Attitudes, beliefs, and infection control practices of Iranian dentists associated with HIV-positive patients

scientific article published in October 2006

Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance Hospital-onset Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance Programme annual report, 2011.

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Australian Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis Outcome Programme annual report, 2013.

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Automated hand hygiene auditing with and without an intervention.

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

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

scientific article published on January 2014

Challenges of hemodialysis in Vietnam: experience from the first standardized district dialysis unit in Ho Chi Minh City.

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Chinese EPINet and recall rates for percutaneous injuries: an epidemic proportion of underreporting in the Taiwan healthcare system

scientific article published on 18 February 2009

Combinations of early signs of critical illness predict in-hospital death-the SOCCER study (signs of critical conditions and emergency responses)

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Comment on: Johnson PDR, et al. Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. Med J Aust 2005; 183: 509-19

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Community-based care of Ebola virus disease in west Africa

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Community-onset Staphylococcus aureus Surveillance Programme annual report, 2012.

scientific article published on 31 March 2014

Contact tracing in a regional sexual health clinic: audit outcomes and implications for sexually transmissible infection control

scientific article published on December 2007

Culture change for hand hygiene: clean hands save lives, part II.

scientific article published in October 2009

Dangerous practices in a hemodialysis unit in Vietnam identify from mixed methods.

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Diagnosis and drug resistance of human soil-transmitted helminth infections: A public health perspective

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Doctor, do you have a moment? National Hand Hygiene Initiative compliance in Australian hospitals

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Doctor, do you have a moment? National Hand Hygiene Initiative compliance in Australian hospitals.

scientific article published in May 2014

Environmental challenges of identifying a patient zone and the healthcare zone in a crowded Vietnamese hospital.

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Estimating the extent of true asymptomatic COVID-19 and its potential for community transmission: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Estimating the risk of pressure ulcer development: is it truly evidence based?

scientific article published on December 2006

Estimation of the risk of bloodborne pathogens to health care workers after a needlestick injury in Taiwan.

scientific article published in February 2002

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an infection control program in adult intensive care units: a report from a middle-income country

scientific article published on October 2014

Face touching in the time of COVID-19 in Shiraz, Iran

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Face touching: a frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene

scientific article published on February 2015

Facilitators for influenza vaccination uptake in nurses at the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Gastrointestinal pathogen distribution in symptomatic children in Sydney, Australia.

scientific article published on 20 January 2013

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

scientific article published on 23 August 2013

Glove: Use for safety or overuse?

scientific article published on 15 October 2017

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

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Hand hygiene compliance in Penang, Malaysia: Human audits versus product usage

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Hand hygiene compliance rates: Fact or fiction?

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Hand hygiene in rural Indonesian healthcare workers: barriers beyond sinks, hand rubs and in-service training.

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

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Hand hygiene: the behaviour is the solution.

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Handwashing in healthcare workers: accessibility of sink location does not improve compliance.

scientific article published in December 2004

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 workers' perceptions predicts uptake of personal protective equipment

scientific article published on 26 May 2012

Hepatitis B and C virus infections among patients with end stage renal disease in a low-resourced hemodialysis center in Vietnam: a cross-sectional study

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Hepatitis B vaccination coverage of Vietnamese children in south-western Sydney

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Hepatitis B-related policies: Inconsistent patient safety in Indonesian hospitals

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Heterosexually acquired HIV infection in female blood donors: Case series between 1985-1990

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Highly endemic hepatitis B infection in rural Vietnam.

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Hollow-bore needlestick injuries in a tertiary teaching hospital: epidemiology, education and engineering

scientific article published in October 2002

Hygiene and Health: Who Do Mothers in Vanuatu Communicate with about Health?

scientific article published on 3 March 2018

Improvements in hand hygiene across New South Wales public hospitals: clean hands save lives, part III.

scientific article published in October 2009

Influenza vaccination uptake among students and clinical staff of a university in Iran

scientific article published on 28 November 2008

Introducing automated hand hygiene surveillance to an Australian hospital: Mirroring the HOW2 Benchmark Study

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Iranian healthcare workers' perspective on hand hygiene: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 02 July 2014

Is it possible to achieve a target of zero central line associated bloodstream infections?

scientific article published on December 2012

Isolation and identification of Burkholderia cepacia by participants in an external Quality Assurance Program (QAP) between 1994 and 1999.

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Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding contact precautions among Iranian physicians

scientific article published on 20 July 2006

Knowledge, attitude, and practices related to standard precautions of surgeons and physicians in university-affiliated hospitals of Shiraz, Iran

scientific article published on 11 July 2006

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of contact precautions among Iranian nurses

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Letter to the editor on "Social cohesion: The missing factor required for a successful hand hygiene program".

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Measuring line-related bacteraemia in intensive care patients

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Australian community: an evolving epidemic

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Methodological difficulties in hand hygiene research

scientific article published on 19 September 2007

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) antibiogram: How inaccurate have our estimates been?

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Modified glove use for contact precautions: Health care workers' perceptions and acceptance

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

More than hand hygiene is needed to affect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical indicator rates: clean hands save lives, part IV.

scientific article published in October 2009

Multicultural presentation of chest pain at an emergency department in Australia

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

National infection control program in Turkey: The healthcare associated infection rate experiences over 10 Years

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Needlestick injuries among nurses of Fars province, Iran

scientific article published on 17 October 2007

Needlestick injuries in a major teaching hospital: the worthwhile effect of hospital-wide replacement of conventional hollow-bore needles

scientific article published in April 2008

Ni-Vanuatu health-seeking practices for general health and childhood diarrheal illness: results from a qualitative methods study

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Nonuniform risk of bloodstream infection with increasing central venous catheter-days

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Our health care workers need more than infection prevention best practice while caring for patients with novel and highly pathogenic infections.

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Patient safety culture: factors that influence clinician involvement in patient safety behaviours

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Personal clothing as a potential vector of respiratory virus transmission in childcare settings.

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Pervasive antibiotic misuse in the Cambodian community: antibiotic-seeking behaviour with unrestricted access.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Pilot testing standardized surveillance: Hospital Infection Standardised Surveillance (HISS). On behalf of the HISS Reference Group

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Post-discharge surgical site surveillance: does patient education improve reliability of diagnosis?

scientific article published on 19 June 2007

Post-discharge surveillance: can patients reliably diagnose surgical wound infections?

scientific article published on November 2002

Potential effect of excluding variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on the eye donor pool in Australia

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Predicting hand hygiene among Iranian health care workers using the theory of planned behavior

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

Predicting intention to use condoms in homosexual men: an application and extension of the theory of reasoned action.

scientific article published in January 1996

Predictors of surgical wound infection in Australia: a national study

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C infection in rural north Vietnam

scientific article published on 19 July 2007

Prevalence of MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2005: report from the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance

scientific article published in September 2007

Prevalence of MRSA strains among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from outpatients, 2006.

scientific article published in March 2009

Prevalence of gastrointestinal pathogens in developed and developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infections in hemodialysis patients in Vietnam: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Prevalence of needlestick injuries among medical students at a university in Iran

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Prevention of needlestick injuries: the need for strategic marketing to address health care worker misperceptions

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates.

scientific article published in July 2012

Protecting healthcare workers from pandemic influenza: N95 or surgical masks?

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Public Health Considerations Associated with the Location and Operation of Off-Leash Dog Parks.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Qualitative findings from focus group discussions on hand hygiene compliance among health care workers in Vietnam.

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Rate of seasonal spread of respiratory syncytial virus in a pediatric hospital.

scientific article published in November 1997

Respiratory virus RNA is detectable in airborne and droplet particles.

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Risks of human immunodeficiency and hepatitis B viral infections in intravenous drug abusers

scientific article published on 01 March 1988

Rural Indonesian health care workers' constructs of infection prevention and control knowledge.

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SEPSIS KILLS: early intervention saves lives.

scientific article published on February 2016

STOP THE CYCLE OF CONTAMINATION AND DEATH.

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Safe removal of gloves from contact precautions: The role of hand hygiene

scientific article published on 05 March 2018

Screening haemodialysis patients for hepatitis C in Vietnam: The inconsistency between common hepatitis C virus serological and virological tests

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Sharps injuries among hospital support personnel

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Signs of critical conditions and emergency responses (SOCCER): a model for predicting adverse events in the inpatient setting

scientific article published on 23 February 2006

Social cohesion: The missing factor required for a successful hand hygiene program.

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Standardising surveillance of nosocomial infections: the HISS program. Hospital Infection Standardised Surveillance

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Student nurses in Taiwan at high risk for needlestick injuries.

scientific article published in April 2002

Subjective norms about condoms are better predictors of use and intention to use than attitudes

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

Suppression of surgeons' bacterial hand flora during surgical procedures with a new antimicrobial surgical glove

scientific article published on 12 October 2013

The 'My five moments for hand hygiene' concept for the overcrowded setting in resource-limited healthcare systems.

scientific article published on May 2015

The Coroner's Role in the Prevention of Elder Abuse: A Study of Australian Coroner's Court Cases Involving Pressure Ulcers in Elders

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

The application of statistical process control charts to the detection and monitoring of hospital-acquired infections

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

The association between child Schistosoma spp. infections and morbidity in an irrigated rice region in Mali: A localized study

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

The community's attitude towards swine flu and pandemic influenza.

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The first six years of surveillance in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in Turkey

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The prevalence of nosocomial and community-acquired infections in Australian hospitals

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

The prevalence of recordings of the signs of critical conditions and emergency responses in hospital wards--the SOCCER study

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

The relationship between hand hygiene and health care-associated infection: it's complicated.

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The role of particle size in aerosolised pathogen transmission: a review

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The validity of surgical wound infection as a clinical indicator in Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1997

Three successful interventions in health care workers that improve compliance with hand hygiene: is sustained replication possible?

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Two-Hourly Repositioning for Prevention of Pressure Ulcers in the Elderly: Patient Safety or Elder Abuse?

scientific article published on 22 January 2019

University communication strategies during a pandemic-were the messages received?

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University life and pandemic influenza: attitudes and intended behaviour of staff and students towards pandemic (H1N1) 2009.

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Unmasking the evidence about masks.

scientific article published in March 2011

Using evidence-based medicine to protect healthcare workers from pandemic influenza: Is it possible?

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When continuous surgical site infection surveillance is interrupted: the Royal Hobart Hospital experience.

scientific article published in September 2005

Who coordinates infection control programs in Australia?

scientific article published on June 1999

Why do I need it? I am not at risk! Public perceptions towards the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine

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Why healthcare workers don't wash their hands: a behavioral explanation.

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Zero risk for central line-associated bloodstream infection: are we there yet?.

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