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| Evaluation of bacterial survival on inert surfaces in a hyperbaric environment | Diving and hyperbaric medicine | 2025 | 15 | 0 | |||
| WHO global research agenda for hand hygiene improvement in health care : a Delphi consensus study | Infection control and hospital epidemiology |  | 2025 | 59 | 247 | ||
| A framework towards implementation of sequencing for antimicrobial-resistant and other health-care-associated pathogens | The Lancet. Infectious diseases |  | 2025 | 82 | 0 | ||
| Prevalence and factors associated with severe fatigue 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-sectional population-based study in Geneva, Switzerland | BMJ open | | 2025 | 86 | 104 | ||
| Overview and evaluation of a nationwide hospital-based surveillance system for influenza and COVID-19 in Switzerland (CH-SUR) : 2018–2023 | Swiss medical weekly | | 2025 | 3 | 17 | ||
| Covid-19 pandemic-related changes in teleworking, emotional exhaustion, and occupational burnout : a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort study | BMC public health | | 2025 | 74 | 173 | ||
| Response to the comment on the article "No detrimental effect on the hand microbiome of health care staff by frequent alcohol-based antisepsis" | American journal of infection control | | 2025 | 23 | 25 | ||
| World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES : Clean Your Hands campaign: Promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers | Journal of infection prevention | | 2024 | 31 | 45 | ||
| Educational technologies for teaching hand hygiene : systematic review | PloS one | | 2024 | 113 | 34 | ||
| Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene and infection prevention and control still so important ? | International journal of infectious diseases | | 2024 | 79 | 100 | ||
| Biopsychosocial risk factors for subjective cognitive decline among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic : a population-based study | Public health | | 2024 | 4 | 25 | ||
| Medical associations and expert committees urge that ethanol be approved as a virucidal active substance for use in hand antiseptics under the European Biocidal Products Regulation, without a CMR classification | GMS. Hygiene and infection control | | 2024 | 49 | 46 | ||
| Ten years of hand hygiene excellence: a summary of outcomes, and a comparison of indicators, from award-winning hospitals worldwide | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 101 | 25 | ||
| Research priorities to strengthen environmental cleaning in healthcare facilities : the CLEAN Group Consensus | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 84 | 168 | ||
| Scientific advisory councils in the COVID-19 response | Lancet | | 2024 | 46 | 0 | ||
| World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign: Promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2024 | 26 | 36 | ||
| Challenges and success stories of the implementation of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship strategies : proceedings of the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety, 2023 | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 101 | 177 | ||
| Updates and future directions regarding hand hygiene in the healthcare setting: insights from the 3rd ICPIC alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) task force | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 177 | 164 | ||
| World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES : Clean Your Hands campaign : Promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers | American journal of infection control | | 2024 | 95 | 1 | ||
| WHO research agenda on the role of the institutional safety climate for hand hygiene improvement : a Delphi consensus-building study | BMJ quality & safety | | 2024 | 58 | 60 | ||
| No detrimental effect on the hand microbiome of health care staff by frequent alcohol-based antisepsis | American journal of infection control | | 2024 | 62 | 22 | ||
| Rinse, gel, and foam - is there any evidence for a difference in their effectiveness in preventing infections ? | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 72 | 170 | ||
| Expanding the use of mathematical modeling in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention and control | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2024 | 510 | 540 | ||
| Mental health trajectories among the general population and higher-risk groups following the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, 2021-2023 | Journal of affective disorders | | 2024 | 5 | 37 | ||
| Le devoir de mémoire : Professor Didier Pittet's reflections on an international career defying boundaries and expectations | Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology | | 2024 | 83 | 89 | ||
| Psychosocial factors mediate social inequalities in health-related quality of life among children and adolescents | BMC public health | | 2024 | 4 | 14 | ||
| Enhancing innovative training and education in infection prevention and control : a call to action for World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 | The Lancet. Global health | | 2024 | 76 | 131 | ||
| World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES : Clean Your Hands campaign : Promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2024 | 38 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene education components among first-year nursing students : a cluster randomized clinical trial | JAMA network open | | 2024 | 83 | 545 | ||
| Prevalence of and risk factors for suicidal ideation in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-sectional study | Swiss medical weekly | | 2024 | 4 | 10 | ||
| Clean Hospitals Day 2024 : the technical domains of healthcare environmental hygiene | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 73 | 59 | ||
| World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2024 | 30 | 39 | ||
| Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents: determinants and association with quality of life and mental health—a cross-sectional study | Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health | | 2023 | 177 | 154 | ||
| Clean hospitals day 2023 marks the global launch of a self-assessment tool | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2023 | 90 | 0 | ||
| COVID-19 pandemic : a catalyst for accelerating global action on patient safety | The Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2023 | 81 | 20 | ||
| Clean Hospitals Day 2023 and the launch of an environmental-hygiene self-assessment tool | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2023 | 88 | 49 | ||
| "Accelerate Action Together" the 5 May 2023 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES- Clean Your Hands campaign | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2023 | 142 | 85 | ||
| New frontiers in healthcare environmental hygiene : thoughts from the 2022 healthcare cleaning forum | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2023 | 149 | 139 | ||
| Socioeconomic conditions and children's mental health and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic : An intersectional analysis | SSM, population health | | 2023 | 153 | 103 | ||
| Factors associated with hand washing effectiveness : an institution-based observational study | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2023 | 134 | 428 | ||
| Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and cross-variant neutralization capacity after the Omicron BA.2 wave in Geneva, Switzerland: a population-based study | The Lancet regional health. Europe | | 2023 | 174 | 159 | ||
| Association between perioperative prophylaxis with cefuroxime plus metronidazole or amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and surgical site infections in paediatric uncomplicated appendectomy : a Swiss retrospective cohort study | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2023 | 87 | 64 | ||
| Long term anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody kinetics and correlate of protection against Omicron BA.1/BA.2 infection | Nature communications | | 2023 | 145 | 62 | ||
| “Accelerate action together” The May 5, 2023, World Health Organization, SAVE LIVES : Clean Your Hands campaign | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2023 | 69 | 0 | ||
| Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene facilitate the implementation of the WHO hand hygiene multimodal improvement strategy in Japan : evidence for the role of local trainers, adaptation, and sustainability | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2023 | 100 | 208 | ||
| Clean Hospitals Day 2023 marks the global launch of a self-assessment tool | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2023 | 217 | 103 | ||
| Occupational risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and reinfection during the second pandemic surge: a cohort study | Occupational and environmental medicine | | 2022 | 248 | 88 | ||
| Comparing the effectiveness of hand hygiene techniques in reducing the microbial load and covering hand surfaces in healthcare workers: updated systematic review | American journal of infection control | | 2022 | 147 | 98 | ||
| 'My Five Moments': understanding a user-centred approach to hand hygiene improvement within a broader implementation strategy | BMJ quality & safety | | 2022 | 285 | 0 | ||
| WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2022 | 182 | 169 | ||
| Specchio-COVID19 cohort study: a longitudinal follow-up of SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey participants in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland | BMJ open | | 2022 | 229 | 81 | ||
| Determinants of adolescents' Health-Related Quality of Life and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic | PloS one | | 2022 | 169 | 170 | ||
| Persistent symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: a cross-sectional population-based serological study | BMJ open | | 2022 | 117 | 67 | ||
| Ethanol is indispensable for virucidal hand antisepsis: memorandum from the alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) Task Force, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, and the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 165 | 227 | ||
| "Unite for safety-Clean your hands": The May 5, 2022, World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2022 | 88 | 0 | ||
| To our friend, John | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2022 | 167 | 101 | ||
| A ‘whole of United Nations approach’ to tackle antimicrobial resistance? A mapping of the mandate and activities of international organisations | BMJ global health | | 2022 | 238 | 164 | ||
| "Unite for safety - clean your hands": the 5 May 2022 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES-Clean Your Hands campaign | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 198 | 90 | ||
| The first WHO global survey on infection prevention and control in health-care facilities | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2022 | 199 | 586 | ||
| Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre prohibit study | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 70 | 155 | ||
| Acceptability of an alcohol-based handrub gel with superfatting agents among healthcare workers: a randomized crossover controlled study | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 132 | 105 | ||
| A population-based serological study of post-COVID syndrome prevalence and risk factors in children and adolescents | Nature communications | | 2022 | 216 | 96 | ||
| First nationwide survey of infection prevention and control among healthcare facilities in japan : impact of the national regulatory system | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 103 | 191 | ||
| Impact of environmental hygiene interventions on healthcare-associated infections and patient colonization: a systematic review | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 187 | 541 | ||
| Systematic review on factors influencing the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand rubbing in healthcare | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 218 | 189 | ||
| Comparing surgeons' skin tolerance and acceptability to alcohol-based surgical hand preparation vs traditional surgical scrub: A matched quasi-experimental study | American journal of infection control | | 2022 | 138 | 0 | ||
| Lower risk of peripheral venous catheter-related bloodstream infection by hand insertion | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 206 | 131 | ||
| Implementation of hand hygiene in health-care facilities: results from the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework global survey 2019 | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2022 | 333 | 311 | ||
| COVID-19-related school disruptions and well-being of children and adolescents in Geneva | Journal of paediatrics and child health | | 2022 | 153 | 127 | ||
| Tolerability and acceptability of three alcohol-based handrub gel formulations: a randomized crossover study | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2022 | 221 | 338 | ||
| Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare ? | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2022 | 94 | 35 | ||
| Results of an international pilot survey on healthcare environmental hygiene at the facility level | American journal of infection control | | 2022 | 144 | 0 | ||
| "Unite for safety - clean your hands": the 5 May 2022 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2022 | 93 | 140 | ||
| Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies 6 months into the vaccination campaign in Geneva, Switzerland, 1 June to 7 July 2021 | Euro surveillance | | 2021 | 262 | 135 | ||
| Association Between Antimicrobial Prophylaxis With Double-Dose Cefuroxime and Surgical Site Infections in Patients Weighing 80 kg or More | JAMA network open | | 2021 | 219 | 93 | ||
| Explosive nosocomial outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in a rehabilitation clinic: the limits of genomics for outbreak reconstruction | The journal of hospital infection | | 2021 | 233 | 210 | ||
| Assessing the accuracy of a new hand hygiene monitoring device (SmartRub®): from the laboratory to clinical practice | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2021 | 267 | 154 | ||
| Insights into household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from a population-based serological survey | Nature Communications | | 2021 | 437 | 208 | ||
| Large variation in anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence among essential workers in Geneva, Switzerland | Nature Communications | | 2021 | 259 | 146 | ||
| Revisiting the evidence for physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection | Lancet | | 2021 | 198 | 245 | ||
| Association between SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Nursing Home Staff and Resident COVID-19 Cases and Mortality: A Cross-Sectional Study | Viruses | | 2021 | 276 | 100 | ||
| Decontaminating N95/FFP2 masks for reuse during the COVID-19 epidemic: a systematic review | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2021 | 217 | 109 | ||
| Implementation of the infection prevention and control core components at the national level: a global situational analysis | Journal of hospital infection | | 2021 | 167 | 142 | ||
| “Seconds save lives - clean your hands”: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | American journal of infection control | | 2021 | 263 | 189 | ||
| An Important Announcement from the World Health Organization: "Seconds Save Lives-Clean your Hands": The May 5, 2021, World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2021 | 127 | 0 | ||
| Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic | BMJ global health | | 2021 | 353 | 120 | ||
| A Complexity Lens on the COVID-19 Pandemic | International journal of health policy and management | | 2021 | 508 | 343 | ||
| Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies after the second pandemic peak | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2021 | 309 | 198 | ||
| Nouveau-nés, sepsis et résistance antimicrobienne-Mesures pour s'attaquer aux problèmes difficiles dans notre population la plus vulnérable | Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Canada | | 2021 | 203 | 0 | ||
| Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroconversion and occupational exposure of employees at a Swiss university hospital: A large longitudinal cohort study | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2021 | 313 | 194 | ||
| Surfing the COVID-19 scientific wave | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2021 | 222 | 109 | ||
| Governance in the age of complexity: building resilience to COVID-19 and future pandemics | | 2021 | 682 | 294 | |||
| Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2021 | 196 | 131 | ||
| Persistence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: immunoassay heterogeneity and implications for serosurveillance | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2021 | 300 | 263 | ||
| "Seconds save lives - clean your hands": the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2021 | 157 | 83 | ||
| Enhancing engagement beyond the conference walls: analysis of Twitter use at #ICPIC2019 infection prevention and control conference | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2021 | 211 | 104 | ||
| Hand hygiene in health care: 20 years of ongoing advances and perspectives | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2021 | 256 | 1 | ||
| Effect of Wearing a Novel Electronic Wearable Device on Hand Hygiene Compliance Among Health Care Workers: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial | JAMA Network Open | | 2021 | 321 | 434 | ||
| The COVID-19 pandemic and N95 masks: reusability and decontamination methods | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2021 | 169 | 171 | ||
| Evaluation of existing and desired measures to monitor, prevent and control healthcare-associated infections in Swiss hospitals | Swiss medical weekly | | 2021 | 238 | 101 | ||
| Comparison of Routine Replacement With Clinically Indicated Replacement of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters | JAMA internal medicine | | 2021 | 230 | 0 | ||
| The Crucial Role of Midwives in Preventing Maternal Sepsis: It All Started in a Maternity Ward | Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health | | 2020 | 270 | 74 | ||
| Neonates, sepsis, and antimicrobial resistance-steps to tackle difficult issues in our most vulnerable population | Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Canada | | 2020 | 168 | 0 | ||
| "Nurses and Midwives: Clean Care Is in Your Hands": The May 5, 2020, World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign | Journal of epidemiology and global health | | 2020 | 186 | 176 | ||
| Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in Geneva, Switzerland (SEROCoV-POP): a population-based study | The Lancet | | 2020 | 775 | 14 | ||
| Home deliveries in limited resource environments | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2020 | 153 | 0 | ||
| Applying thematic synthesis to interpretation and commentary in epidemiological studies: identifying what contributes to successful interventions to promote hand hygiene in patient care | BMJ quality & safety | | 2020 | 194 | 0 | ||
| Alcohol-based handrub and Influenza A: the danger of publishing a flawed study with no clinical relevance | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2020 | 391 | 4 | ||
| A Serious Game Designed to Promote Safe Behaviors Among Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of “Escape COVID-19” | JMIR serious games | | 2020 | 301 | 344 | ||
| Promises and limitations of a digitalized infection control program | Journal of Advanced Nursing | | 2020 | 264 | 0 | ||
| Evaluation of World Health Organization-Recommended Hand Hygiene Formulations | Emerging Infectious Diseases | | 2020 | 185 | 1 | ||
| Emojis in public health and how they might be used for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 382 | 318 | ||
| The economics of infection prevention: why it is crucial to invest in hand hygiene and nurses during the novel coronavirus pandemic | Journal of Infection | | 2020 | 185 | 439 | ||
| Sustained effects of a multimodal campaign aiming at hand hygiene improvement on compliance and healthcare-associated infections in a large gynaecology/obstetrics tertiary-care centre in Vietnam | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 208 | 209 | ||
| Antimicrobial resistance in southern China: results of prospective surveillance in Dongguan city, 2017 | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2020 | 214 | 2 | ||
| "Nurses and midwives: Clean care is in your hands": The May 5, 2020, World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2020 | 171 | 0 | ||
| The voice of nurses in hospital epidemiology and infection control: An example from the 19th century | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | | 2020 | 294 | 260 | ||
| Evidence for action: a One Health learning platform on interventions to tackle antimicrobial resistance | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2020 | 404 | 1 | ||
| The great nursing brain drain and its effects on patient safety | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 400 | 346 | ||
| "Nurses and Midwives: Clean care is in your hands": The 5 May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Nursing in Critical Care | | 2020 | 182 | 1 | ||
| The duality of nurses' work: How can the profession that saves the most lives in the world avoid spreading disease? | International Journal of Nursing Studies | | 2020 | 224 | 1 | ||
| It's in our hands: a rapid, international initiative to translate a hand hygiene song during the COVID-19 pandemic | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2020 | 210 | 164 | ||
| Assessment of hand hygiene facilities and staff compliance in a large tertiary health care facility in northern Nigeria: a cross sectional study | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 262 | 353 | ||
| Hand hygiene promotion delivered by change agents-Two attitudes, similar outcome | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2020 | 189 | 1 | ||
| Antimicrobial prophylaxis administration after umbilical cord clamping in cesarean section and the risk of surgical site infection: a cohort study with 55,901 patients | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2020 | 223 | 60 | ||
| Putting some context to the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2 | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2020 | 260 | 107 | ||
| "Nurses and midwives: Clean care is in your hands": The 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2020 | 177 | 0 | ||
| Critical Reliability Issues of Common Type Alcohol-Based Handrub Dispensers | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 189 | 119 | ||
| Hand hygiene and the novel coronavirus pandemic: the role of healthcare workers | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2020 | 382 | 932 | ||
| Día Mundial de la Higiene de las Manos. Campaña para mejorar la higiene de las manos en la asistencia sanitaria | Revista española de salud pública | | 2020 | 176 | 91 | ||
| WHO year of the nurse and midwife: more clean and educated hands for all | Journal of infection prevention | | 2020 | 148 | 132 | ||
| 'Nurses and Midwives: clean care is in your hands': the 5 May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Journal of Infection Prevention | | 2020 | 178 | 0 | ||
| "Infection prevention and control idea challenge" contest: a fresh view on medical education and problem solving | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2020 | 212 | 143 | ||
| "Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands": the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 173 | 176 | ||
| Understanding the emerging coronavirus: what it means for health security and infection prevention | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2020 | 257 | 152 | ||
| 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 | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2020 | 197 | 123 | ||
| Missed vaccinations and critical care admission: all you may wish to know or rediscover-a narrative review | Intensive Care Medicine | | 2020 | 487 | 0 | ||
| Correction to: Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene: a standardized approach to guide education in infection prevention and control | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2020 | 232 | 87 | ||
| Antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals: national point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, Switzerland, 2017 | Euro Surveillance | | 2019 | 363 | 180 | ||
| Influenza and Alcohol-Based Handrub: the Danger of Ignoring Clinical Relevance | mSphere | | 2019 | 214 | 104 | ||
| National point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals, Switzerland, 2017 | Euro Surveillance | | 2019 | 374 | 202 | ||
| "Clean care for all - It's in your hands": The May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | | 2019 | 260 | 139 | ||
| Clean care for all-it's in your hands: The May 5, 2019, World Health Organization's "SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands" campaign | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2019 | 235 | 93 | ||
| "Clean care for all-it's in your hands"; the May 5th, 2019, World Health Organization's SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2019 | 250 | 0 | ||
| "Clean Care for All-It's in Your Hands": The 5 May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign | Clinical Infectious Diseases | | 2019 | 261 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene - social network analysis of peer-identified and management-selected change agents | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 277 | 377 | ||
| Antibacterial efficacy of handrubbing for 15 versus 30 seconds: EN 1500-based randomized experimental study with different loads of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2019 | 278 | 1 | ||
| 'Clean care for all - it's in your hands': the 5th May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2019 | 230 | 0 | ||
| Implementation research for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections; 2017 Geneva infection prevention and control (IPC)-think tank (part 1) | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 443 | 239 | ||
| Hand antisepsis without decreasing efficacy by shortening the rub-in time of alcohol-based handrubs to 15 seconds | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2019 | 228 | 0 | ||
| "Clean care for all - it's in your hands": the May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Journal of Infection | | 2019 | 244 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene in low- and middle-income countries | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | | 2019 | 319 | 267 | ||
| Hand hygiene: Sounds easy, but not when it comes to implementation | Journal of Infection and Public Health | | 2019 | 299 | 539 | ||
| Glycerol content within the WHO ethanol-based handrub formulation: balancing tolerability with antimicrobial efficacy | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 259 | 128 | ||
| 2019 WHO hand hygiene campaign and global survey: clean care for all-it's in your hands | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2019 | 256 | 1 | ||
| Monitoring your institution: the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework-is it worth it? | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2019 | 354 | 1 | ||
| Technology for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections; 2017 Geneva IPC-Think Tank (Part 2) | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 439 | 179 | ||
| Infection prevention: laying an essential foundation for quality universal health coverage | The Lancet Global Health | | 2019 | 272 | 75 | ||
| Why should developed countries care about Universal Health Coverage? | International journal of infection control | | 2019 | 42 | 38 | ||
| Impact of participation in a surgical site infection surveillance network: results from a large international cohort study | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2019 | 392 | 247 | ||
| Implementation of infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals in Mainland China - a systematic review | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 343 | 249 | ||
| "Clean Care for All-It's in Your Hands": The 5th of May 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | | 2019 | 292 | 0 | ||
| Acceptability and tolerability of alcohol-based hand hygiene products for elderly residents in long-term care: a crossover study | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 298 | 237 | ||
| "Clean care for all-it's in your hands": the May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 231 | 209 | ||
| Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene: a standardized approach to guide education in infection prevention and control | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 349 | 313 | ||
| Scenario-based simulation training for the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 324 | 200 | ||
| Broadening the infection prevention and control network globally; 2017 Geneva IPC-think tank (part 3) | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2019 | 410 | 190 | ||
| Native septic arthritis is not an immediate surgical emergency | Journal of Infection | | 2018 | 869 | 1,065 | ||
| Infections associées aux soins : perspective ambulatoire | Revue médicale suisse | | 2018 | 678 | 674 | ||
| Hand Hygiene in hospitals: Anatomy of a revolution | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2018 | 567 | 1 | ||
| "It's in your hands - prevent sepsis in health care"; World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2018 | 400 | 1 | ||
| Healthcare-associated sepsis and the role of clean hands: When we do not see the trees for the forest | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | | 2018 | 365 | 558 | ||
| 2018 WHO hand hygiene campaign: preventing sepsis in health care and the path to universal health coverage | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2018 | 443 | 0 | ||
| Preventing sepsis in healthcare - 200 years after the birth of Ignaz Semmelweis | Euro Surveillance | | 2018 | 363 | 217 | ||
| Migrant and refugee populations: a public health and policy perspective on a continuing global crisis | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2018 | 520 | 335 | ||
| The WHO 2018 Hand Hygiene Campaign: Make a Difference-Prevent Sepsis in Health Care | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | | 2018 | 393 | 0 | ||
| Global hand hygiene improvement progress: two surveys using the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2018 | 469 | 0 | ||
| Fighting the good fight: the fallout of fake news in infection prevention and why context matters | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2018 | 505 | 4 | ||
| Prévention de la grippe en milieu de soins aigus : une intervention multimodale | Revue médicale suisse | | 2018 | 468 | 242 | ||
| Roles, responsibilities and remit of United Nations' organisations in relation to antimicrobial resistance |  | 2018 | 348 | 0 | |||
| 'One size does not fit all' - customizing hand hygiene agents, messages, and interventions | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2018 | 451 | 0 | ||
| Preventing sepsis in health care - It's in your hands: A World Health Organization call to action | Journal of Infection Prevention | | 2018 | 348 | 0 | ||
| "It's in your hands-prevent sepsis in health care"; May 5 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2018 | 466 | 0 | ||
| Enterococcus faecium tolerance to isopropanol: from good science to misinformation | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2018 | 486 | 1 | ||
| Wiping Is Inferior to Rubbing: A Note of Caution for Hand Hygiene With Alcohol-Based Solutions | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2018 | 364 | 0 | ||
| The Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Mainland China: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2018 | 493 | 13 | ||
| Conflicts of interest in infection prevention and control research: no smoke without fire. A narrative review | Intensive Care Medicine | | 2018 | 759 | 3 | ||
| Prévention et contrôle des infections associées aux soins en Suisse romande : 25 ans après … | Revue médicale suisse | | 2018 | 397 | 101 | ||
| Let's prevent sepsis in health care - The 5 May 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Journal of Infection | | 2018 | 327 | 0 | ||
| Promoting and sustaining a historical and global effort to prevent sepsis: the 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign | Critical Care | | 2018 | 457 | 198 | ||
| Implementing infection prevention practices across European hospitals: an in-depth qualitative assessment | BMJ Quality and Safety | | 2018 | 416 | 155 | ||
| The 2018 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign targets sepsis in health care | Intensive Care Medicine | | 2018 | 357 | 163 | ||
| "It's in Your Hands-Prevent Sepsis in Health Care": 5 May 2018, World Health Organization (WHO) SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Campaign | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2018 | 504 | 284 | ||
| Prevention of hospital infections by intervention and training (PROHIBIT): results of a pan-European cluster-randomized multicentre study to reduce central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections | Intensive Care Medicine | | 2018 | 407 | 0 | ||
| Point prevalence of healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic use in three large Swiss acute-care hospitals | Swiss Medical Weekly | | 2018 | 600 | 262 | ||
| Clean your hands on May 5, 2017: Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2017 | 425 | 1 | ||
| Burden of healthcare-associated infections in China: results of the 2015 point prevalence survey in Dong Guan City | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2017 | 511 | 6 | ||
| 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 | BMJ (Global health) | | 2017 | 557 | 189 | ||
| Hand hygiene: From research to action | Journal of Infection Prevention | | 2017 | 481 | 5 | ||
| Fighting antibiotic resistance is in your hands: May 5, 2017 | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2017 | 473 | 2 | ||
| One- vs 2-Stage Bursectomy for Septic Olecranon and Prepatellar Bursitis: A Prospective Randomized Trial | Mayo Clinic proceedings | | 2017 | 528 | 1 | ||
| Simplifying the WHO 'how to hand rub' technique: three steps are as effective as six-results from an experimental randomized crossover trial | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2017 | 540 | 0 | ||
| The global hand-sanitizing relay: promoting hand hygiene through innovation | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2017 | 493 | 1 | ||
| Antimicrobial-coated sutures to decrease surgical site infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases | | 2017 | 532 | 0 | ||
| Antimicrobial resistance: The complex challenge of measurement to inform policy and the public | PLOS Medicine | | 2017 | 558 | 279 | ||
| Impact of the "Saves lives : Clean your hands 5th of May" campaign on the press : 2005-2016 | ARIC : Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017: 6 (Suppl 3) Abstract from ICPIC 2017 - 4th International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control | | 2017 | 536 | 11 | ||
| Assessing the Likelihood of Hand-to-Hand Cross-Transmission of Bacteria: An Experimental Study | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2017 | 508 | 0 | ||
| World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign-'Fight antibiotic resistance-it's in your hands' | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2017 | 469 | 1 | ||
| Hand hygiene mantra: teach, monitor, improve, and celebrate | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2017 | 479 | 1 | ||
| The Effect of Participating in a Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance Network on the Time Trend of SSI Rates: A Systematic Review | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2017 | 520 | 0 | ||
| Determinants of success and sustainability of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene promotion campaign, Italy, 2007-2008 and 2014 | Euro Surveillance | | 2017 | 511 | 2 | ||
| Revisiting the WHO "How to Handrub" Hand Hygiene Technique: Fingertips First? | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2017 | 579 | 1 | ||
| Hand hygiene electronic monitoring: Are we there yet? | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2017 | 480 | 1 | ||
| Uses of twitter in health : the case of hand hygiene and infection control | Meeting abstracts from International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC 2017) | 2017 | 791 | 1,599 | |||
| Enterococci in orthopaedic infections: Who is at risk getting infected? | The Journal of infection | | 2017 | 501 | 510 | ||
| Mapping global policy discourse on antimicrobial resistance | BMJ (Global health) | | 2017 | 468 | 423 | ||
| Management and investigation of a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal unit in Switzerland - the role of hand hygiene and whole genome sequencing - R1, ARIC-D-17-00143 | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2017 | 488 | 301 | ||
| Shortening the Application Time of Alcohol-Based Hand Rubs to 15 Seconds May Improve the Frequency of Hand Antisepsis Actions in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2017 | 411 | 0 | ||
| Les usages de Twitter en santé: le cas de l'hygiène des mains et du contrôle des infections | 2ème journée du réseau thématique Langage & Communication | | 2017 | 717 | 14 | ||
| Methodology and Background for the World Health Organization Global Guidelines on the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection | Surgical Infections | | 2017 | 484 | 0 | ||
| Hand Hygiene Improvement and Sustainability: Assessing a Breakthrough Collaborative in Western Switzerland | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2017 | 506 | 1 | ||
| The 17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases workshop on developing infection prevention and control resources for low- and middle-income countries | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | | 2017 | 438 | 206 | ||
| WHO's recommendation for surgical skin antisepsis is premature - Authors' reply | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2017 | 456 | 0 | ||
| Why language matters: a tour through hand hygiene literature | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2017 | 476 | 239 | ||
| Efficacy of the World Health Organization-recommended handwashing technique and a modified washing technique to remove Clostridium difficile from hands | American Journal of Infection Control | | 2017 | 476 | 0 | ||
| Hand Hygiene With Alcohol-Based Hand Rub: How Long Is Long Enough? | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | | 2017 | 536 | 0 | ||
| Clean Your Hands 5th May 2017: 'Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands' | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2017 | 510 | 210 | ||
| Duration of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria - Authors' reply | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2017 | 467 | 2 | ||
| Dynamique communicationnelle sur les réseaux sociaux | Langage et Communication | | 2016 | 560 | 18 | ||
| New WHO recommendations on intraoperative and postoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2016 | 544 | 0 | ||
| Predictors of Heavy Stethoscope Contamination Following a Physical Examination | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2016 | 529 | 0 | ||
| Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of polyhexanide for topical decolonization of MRSA carriers | The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy | | 2016 | 546 | 269 | ||
| Role of parents in the promotion of hand hygiene in the paediatric setting: a systematic literature review | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2016 | 453 | 0 | ||
| Surgical site infection prevention: a global priority | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2016 | 454 | 0 | ||
| Should Alcohol-Based Handrub Use Be Customized to Healthcare Workers' Hand Size? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2016 | 571 | 0 | ||
| Ethanol-based handrubs: Safe for patients and health care workers | American journal of infection control | | 2016 | 514 | 0 | ||
| The strategic plan for combating antimicrobial resistance in Gulf Cooperation Council States | Journal of infection and public health | | 2016 | 567 | 527 | ||
| Central-line bundles need a multimodal implementation strategy | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2016 | 535 | 0 | ||
| New WHO recommendations on preoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | | 2016 | 657 | 0 | ||
| The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: Hands On | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | | 2016 | 540 | 234 | ||
| 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 | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2016 | 670 | 1 | ||
| Hand coverage by alcohol-based handrub varies: Volume and hand size matter | American journal of infection control | 2016 | 506 | 0 | |||
| Eight-year sustainability of a successful intervention to prevent urinary tract infection: A mixed-methods study | American journal of infection control | | 2016 | 594 | 145 | ||
| International cooperation to improve access to and sustain effectiveness of antimicrobials | Lancet | | 2016 | 570 | 2 | ||
| Prevalence of extended-spectrum betalactamase producing–Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) carriage on admission at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) | 3rd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC 2015) | 2015 | 17 | 0 | |||
| Transmission and effect of multiple clusters of seasonal influenza in a swiss geriatric hospital | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | | 2015 | 663 | 0 | ||
| Organization of infection control in European hospitals | Journal of Hospital Infection | | 2015 | 469 | 0 | ||
| Impact of the first hand sanitizing relay world record on compliance with hand hygiene in a hospital | American journal of infection control | | 2015 | 591 | 858 | ||
| The 'My five moments for hand hygiene' concept for the overcrowded setting in resource-limited healthcare systems | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2015 | 608 | 1 | ||
| Healthcare-associated infections are associated with insufficient dietary intake: an observational cross-sectional study | PloS one | | 2015 | 679 | 273 | ||
| Clinical features and viral kinetics in a rapidly cured patient with Ebola virus disease: a case report | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2015 | 708 | 1 | ||
| Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2015 | 729 | 0 | ||
| Daily chlorhexidine bathing for critically ill patients: a note of caution | JAMA | | 2015 | 569 | 0 | ||
| Health-care-associated infections - Authors' reply | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2015 | 553 | 307 | ||
| Use of hand hygiene agents as a surrogate marker of compliance in Hungarian long-term care facilities: first nationwide survey | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2015 | 928 | 480 | ||
| In-Hospital Transfer Is a Risk Factor for Invasive Filamentous Fungal Infection among Hospitalized Patients with Hematological Malignancies: A Matched Case-Control Study | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2015 | 616 | 1 | ||
| Provision and consumption of alcohol-based hand rubs in European hospitals | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | | 2015 | 450 | 445 | ||
| Infections profondes des tissus mous | Revue médicale suisse | | 2014 | 879 | 0 | ||
| Does Colonization with Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Protect against Nosocomial Acquisition of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2014 | 723 | 0 | ||
| Candida colonization index and subsequent infection in critically ill surgical patients: 20 years later | Intensive care medicine | | 2014 | 1,027 | 384 | ||
| Survival of influenza virus on human fingers | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2014 | 525 | 0 | ||
| Assessing the burden of healthcare-associated infections through prevalence studies: what is the best method? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2014 | 585 | 2 | ||
| Status of the implementation of the World Health Organization multimodal hand hygiene strategy in United States of America health care facilities | American journal of infection control | | 2014 | 645 | 0 | ||
| Contamination of stethoscopes and physicians' hands after a physical examination | Mayo Clinic proceedings | | 2014 | 691 | 0 | ||
| Hospital-wide multidisciplinary, multimodal intervention programme to reduce central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infection | PloS one | | 2014 | 715 | 350 | ||
| Prevalence of nosocomial infections and anti-infective therapy in Benin: results of the first nationwide survey in 2012 | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2014 | 1,060 | 474 | ||
| The Intensive Care Unit, Part A : HAI Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Surveillance, Engineering and Administrative Infection Control Practices, and Impact | Bennett & Brachman's Hospital Infections | | 2014 | 639 | 1 | ||
| Beginning the journey of hand hygiene compliance monitoring at a 2,100-bed tertiary hospital in Vietnam | American journal of infection control | | 2014 | 659 | 0 | ||
| Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Hospital Food: A Risk Assessment | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2014 | 553 | 2 | ||
| Efficacy of a new educational tool to improve Handrubbing technique amongst healthcare workers: a controlled, before-after study | PloS one | | 2014 | 577 | 290 | ||
| Development of an evaluation framework for African-European hospital patient safety partnerships | BMJ quality & safety | | 2014 | 565 | 0 | ||
| Antibiotic resistance needs global solutions | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2014 | 598 | 0 | ||
| Health care workers' hand contamination levels and antibacterial efficacy of different hand hygiene methods used in a Vietnamese hospital | American journal of infection control | | 2014 | 910 | 0 | ||
| In reply-A "Solution" for Infectious Stethoscopes? | Mayo Clinic proceedings | | 2014 | 622 | 0 | ||
| National European guidelines for the prevention of Clostridium difficile infection: a systematic qualitative review | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2014 | 567 | 0 | ||
| Noma affected children from niger have distinct oral microbial communities based on high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments | PLoS neglected tropical diseases | | 2014 | 696 | 295 | ||
| Burden of bloodstream infection caused by extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae determined using multistate modeling at a Swiss University Hospital and a nationwide predictive model | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2013 | 1,242 | 1,262 | ||
| Carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriacae among internal medicine patients in Switzerland | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2013 | 755 | 270 | ||
| Prevention of surgical site infections in orthopaedic surgery and bone trauma: state-of-the-art update | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2013 | 697 | 0 | ||
| High proportion of healthcare-associated urinary tract infection in the absence of prior exposure to urinary catheter: a cross-sectional study | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2013 | 680 | 1,438 | ||
| Risk factors for noma disease: a 6-year, prospective, matched case-control study in Niger | The Lancet. Global health | | 2013 | 926 | 706 | ||
| Microarray Analysis of Microbiota of Gingival Lesions in Noma Patients | PLoS neglected tropical diseases | | 2013 | 724 | 1,083 | ||
| Modified World Health Organization hand rub formulations comply with European efficacy requirements for preoperative surgical hand preparations | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2013 | 679 | 1 | ||
| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus risk profiling: who are we missing? | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2013 | 671 | 233 | ||
| Local production of WHO-recommended alcohol-based handrubs: feasibility, advantages, barriers and costs | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | | 2013 | 622 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene promotion and the participation of infection control link nurses: an effective innovation to overcome campaign fatigue | American journal of infection control | | 2013 | 563 | 1 | ||
| Improving hand hygiene compliance in healthcare settings using behavior change theories: reflections | Teaching and learning in medicine | | 2013 | 896 | 0 | ||
| Burden of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections at a Swiss University hospital: excess length of stay and costs | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2013 | 668 | 0 | ||
| Global implementation of WHO's multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene: a quasi-experimental study | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2013 | 814 | 0 | ||
| Public reporting of healthcare-associated infection data in Europe. What are the views of infection prevention opinion leaders? | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2013 | 544 | 0 | ||
| Implementation of infection control best practice in intensive care units throughout Europe: a mixed-method evaluation study | Implementation science | | 2013 | 670 | 191 | ||
| Decolonization of intestinal carriage of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae with oral colistin and neomycin: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial | The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy | | 2013 | 663 | 721 | ||
| Hand hygiene and healthcare system change within multi-modal promotion: a narrative review | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2013 | 623 | 2 | ||
| Access to antibiotics: a safety and equity challenge for the next decade | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2013 | 631 | 221 | ||
| Testing the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework for usability and reliability | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2013 | 673 | 1 | ||
| Strengthening the evidence-policy interface for patient safety: enhancing global health through hospital partnerships | Globalization and health | | 2013 | 613 | 271 | ||
| Short duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in open fractures does not enhance risk of subsequent infection | The bone & joint journal | | 2013 | 598 | 0 | ||
| Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2013 | 684 | 898 | ||
| Developed-developing country partnerships: benefits to developed countries? | Globalization and health | | 2012 | 788 | 767 | ||
| Testing of the World Health Organization recommended formulations in their application as hygienic hand rubs and proposals for increased efficacy | American journal of infection control | | 2012 | 642 | 0 | ||
| Caregivers' perceptions of patients as reminders to improve hand hygiene | Archives of internal medicine | | 2012 | 689 | 579 | ||
| Prévention des infections postopératoires en orthopédie | Revue médicale suisse | | 2012 | 615 | 0 | ||
| Anatomy of a successful multimodal hand hygiene campaign | BMJ quality & safety | | 2012 | 480 | 0 | ||
| Electronic-eye faucets-curse or blessing? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2012 | 622 | 0 | ||
| Nationwide benchmarking of hand hygiene performance | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2012 | 673 | 1 | ||
| Reply to: Kampf G, Ostermeyer C. World Health Organization-recommended hand-rub formulations do not meet European efficacy requirements for surgical hand disinfection in five minutes (J Hosp Infect 2011;78:123-127) | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2012 | 642 | 0 | ||
| Transmission dynamics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a medical intensive care unit | Journal of the Royal Society interface | | 2012 | 602 | 0 | ||
| Stopcock contamination: the source does not explain it all | Anesthesia and analgesia | | 2012 | 604 | 0 | ||
| A new journal and new global perspective on infection control and public health | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2012 | 577 | 175 | ||
| Norovirus outbreaks and alcohol-based handrub solutions: association does not prove causation | American journal of infection control | | 2012 | 541 | 0 | ||
| Low risk despite high endemicity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections following elective total joint arthroplasty: a 12-year experience | Annals of medicine | | 2012 | 640 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene must be enabled and promoted | American journal of infection control | | 2012 | 557 | 1 | ||
| Priority actions to fight antibiotic resistance: results of an international meeting | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2012 | 569 | 581 | ||
| Ready for a world without antibiotics? The Pensières Antibiotic Resistance Call to Action | Antimicrobial resistance and infection control | | 2012 | 680 | 480 | ||
| Bacterial diversity in oral samples of children in niger with acute noma, acute necrotizing gingivitis, and healthy controls | PLoS neglected tropical diseases | | 2012 | 830 | 412 | ||
| Multistate modelling to estimate the excess length of stay associated with meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection in surgical patients | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 491 | 0 | ||
| Individualized catheter surveillance among neonates: a prospective, 8-year, single-center experience | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2011 | 626 | 1 | ||
| Meticillin resistance in orthopaedic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 604 | 0 | ||
| Secular trends in antibiotic use among neonates: 2001-2008 | The Pediatric infectious disease journal | | 2011 | 612 | 0 | ||
| Hospital-wide survey of the use of central venous catheters | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 605 | 0 | ||
| Impact of observation and analysis methodology when reporting hand hygiene data | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 626 | 1 | ||
| Molecular and epidemiological evaluation of strain replacement in patients previously harboring gentamicin-resistant MRSA | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2011 | 543 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene practices and adherence determinants in surgical wards across Europe and Israel: a multicenter observational study | American journal of infection control | | 2011 | 640 | 0 | ||
| Quicker, easier, and cheaper? The promise of automated hand hygiene monitoring | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2011 | 583 | 1 | ||
| Trends in mupirocin resistance in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and mupirocin consumption at a tertiary care hospital | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 643 | 1 | ||
| Patient empowerment and multimodal hand hygiene promotion: a win-win strategy | American journal of medical quality | | 2011 | 734 | 2 | ||
| Promoting hand hygiene in healthcare through national/subnational campaigns | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 538 | 1 | ||
| Ignác Semmelweis-celebrating a flawed pioneer of patient safety | Lancet | | 2011 | 557 | 0 | ||
| WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global annual campaign. A call for action: 5 May 2011 | Infection | | 2011 | 566 | 140 | ||
| Society's failure to protect a precious resource: antibiotics | Lancet | | 2011 | 641 | 1 | ||
| Testing of the World Health Organization-recommended formulations for surgical hand preparation and proposals for increased efficacy | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 540 | 0 | ||
| Involving the patient to ask about hospital hand hygiene: a National Patient Safety Agency feasibility study | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2011 | 630 | 0 | ||
| Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2011 | 648 | 0 | ||
| Use of benchmarking and public reporting for infection control in four high-income countries | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2011 | 596 | 0 | ||
| Prevention of catheter-related infection: toward zero risk? | Current opinion in infectious diseases | | 2011 | 570 | 0 | ||
| Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | | 2011 | 618 | 0 | ||
| Clinical and nonclinical health care workers faced a similar risk of acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2011 | 563 | 0 | ||
| Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? Reliability of the international health regulations notification assessment process | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | | 2011 | 623 | 1 | ||
| Overall burden of healthcare-associated infections among surgical patients. Results of a national study | Annals of surgery | | 2011 | 585 | 0 | ||
| Back to the future: rising to the Semmelweis challenge in hand hygiene | Future microbiology | | 2011 | 713 | 9 | ||
| Effectiveness of a hand hygiene promotion strategy using alcohol-based handrub in 6 intensive care units in Colombia | American journal of infection control | | 2011 | 631 | 0 | ||
| Videos in clinical medicine. Hand hygiene | The New England journal of medicine | | 2011 | 595 | 1 | ||
| Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet | | 2011 | 1,592 | 3 | ||
| Surgical hand preparation: state-of-the-art | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2010 | 600 | 0 | ||
| WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: saving lives in healthcare through clean hands | Infection | | 2010 | 577 | 332 | ||
| 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 | British journal of surgery | | 2010 | 607 | 1 | ||
| Patient participation: current knowledge and applicability to patient safety | Mayo Clinic proceedings | | 2010 | 714 | 2 | ||
| Successful hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral children's hospital in Armenia | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2010 | 630 | 0 | ||
| Preventing surgical site infections | Expert review of anti-infective therapy | | 2010 | 752 | 5 | ||
| Infection prevention research in Europe: recent advances and future priorities | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2010 | 585 | 0 | ||
| Autoclave sterilizable pencils in maxillofacial surgery | British journal of plastic surgery | | 2010 | 659 | 1 | ||
| Educating healthcare workers to optimal hand hygiene practices: addressing the need | Infection | | 2010 | 638 | 456 | ||
| Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral hospital in Mali, Africa | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | 2010 | 786 | 0 | |||
| Reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia: when process control allows outcome improvement and even benchmarking | Critical care medicine | | 2010 | 577 | 0 | ||
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in a pediatric intensive care unit linked to a humanitarian organization residential center | The Pediatric infectious disease journal | | 2010 | 691 | 0 | ||
| Cost-effectiveness of universal MRSA screening on admission to surgery | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2010 | 604 | 0 | ||
| Prevention and control of health care-associated infections through improved hand hygiene | Indian journal of medical microbiology | 2010 | 609 | 0 | |||
| Methods to evaluate the microbicidal activities of hand-rub and hand-wash agents | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2009 | 596 | 0 | ||
| Statewide hand hygiene improvement: embarking on a crusade | Medical journal of Australia | 2009 | 485 | 0 | |||
| Evaluation of patients' mask use after the implementation of cough etiquette in the emergency department | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | 2009 | 600 | 0 | |||
| Preventing catheter-related bloodstream infections: thinking outside the checklist | JAMA | | 2009 | 500 | 0 | ||
| Healthcare-associated infection: moving behind headlines to clinical solutions | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2009 | 565 | 0 | ||
| Hygiène des mains: révolutions, normalisation, globalisation | Revue médicale suisse | 2009 | 602 | 0 | |||
| Foreign body infections due to Staphylococcus epidermidis | Annals of medicine | | 2009 | 655 | 6 | ||
| Patients' beliefs and perceptions of their participation to increase healthcare worker compliance with hand hygiene | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | 2009 | 610 | 0 | |||
| Cockroaches (Ectobius vittiventris) in an intensive care unit, Switzerland | Emerging infectious diseases | | 2009 | 740 | 0 | ||
| Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2009 | 824 | 0 | ||
| The World Health Organization hand hygiene observation method | American journal of infection control | | 2009 | 715 | 1 | ||
| Peripheral venous catheters: an under-evaluated problem | International journal of antimicrobial agents | | 2009 | 575 | 2 | ||
| Comparison of national and subnational guidelines for hand hygiene | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2009 | 612 | 0 | ||
| Religion and culture: potential undercurrents influencing hand hygiene promotion in health care | American journal of infection control | | 2009 | 675 | 0 | ||
| Hospital-wide surveillance of catheter-related bloodstream infection: from the expected to the unexpected | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2009 | 597 | 0 | ||
| Nurses and physicians' perceptions of the importance and impact of healthcare-associated infections and hand hygiene: a multi-center exploratory study in Hong Kong | Infection | | 2009 | 644 | 0 | ||
| The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and their consensus recommendations | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | 2009 | 794 | 0 | |||
| Surveillance of extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in a Swiss Tertiary Care Hospital | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | | 2009 | 558 | 5 | ||
| "Les grands principes de prévention des infections s'appliquent aussi en médecine ambulatoire" | Revue médicale suisse | 2009 | 577 | 0 | |||
| The global impact of hand hygiene campaigning | Euro surveillance | | 2009 | 510 | 0 | ||
| Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: risk factors for infection, and long-term follow-up | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2009 | 622 | 3 | ||
| Multi-resistant infections in repatriated patients after natural disasters: lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami for hospital infection control | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2008 | 645 | 0 | ||
| Infection control as a major World Health Organization priority for developing countries | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2008 | 703 | 0 | ||
| Trial of alcohol-based hand gel in critical care units | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2008 | 620 | 0 | ||
| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2005 | Emerging infectious diseases | | 2008 | 584 | 0 | ||
| Alcohol-based rubs for hand antisepsis | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2008 | 589 | 0 | ||
| A predictive model for identifying surgical patients at risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission | Journal of the American College of Surgeons | | 2008 | 703 | 0 | ||
| Ventilator-associated pneumonia as a quality indicator for patient safety? | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2008 | 500 | 0 | ||
| Universal Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Hospitals—Reply | JAMA | | 2008 | 588 | 1 | ||
| Healthcare-associated infections: think globally, act locally | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2008 | 620 | 0 | ||
| Healthcare-associated infections in neonates | Current opinion in infectious diseases | | 2008 | 583 | 0 | ||
| Cefuroxime prophylaxis is effective in noninstrumented spine surgery: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study | Spine | | 2008 | 671 | 0 | ||
| Effect of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by polymerase chain reaction on the duration of unnecessary preemptive contact isolation | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | 2008 | 643 | 0 | |||
| Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2008 | 706 | 620 | ||
| Commentary: hand hygiene: it's all about when and how | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | 2008 | 515 | 0 | |||
| Infection control in paediatrics | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2008 | 567 | 0 | ||
| Antibiotic prophylaxis before invasive dental procedures in patients with arthroplasties of the hip and knee | Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume | | 2008 | 565 | 7 | ||
| Re: help or hindrance? Is current infection control advice applicable in low- and middle-income countries? A review of the literature | American journal of infection control | | 2008 | 450 | 0 | ||
| Comment on: Control of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae using a computer-assisted management program to restrict third-generation cephalosporin use | The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy | | 2008 | 590 | 0 | ||
| Temporal effects of antibiotic use and hand rub consumption on the incidence of MRSA and Clostridium difficile | The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy | | 2008 | 658 | 0 | ||
| Preventing infections acquired during health-care delivery | Lancet | | 2008 | 622 | 0 | ||
| Novel microarray design strategy to study complex bacterial communities | Applied and environmental microbiology | | 2008 | 588 | 0 | ||
| Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients | JAMA | | 2008 | 718 | 0 | ||
| Rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates by automated multilocus variable-number of tandem repeats: a tool for real-time epidemiology | Journal of microbiological methods | | 2008 | 723 | 0 | ||
| Healthcare-associated infection in developing countries: simple solutions to meet complex challenges | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2007 | 566 | 0 | ||
| Management of Gram-positive bacteraemia | Current opinion in infectious diseases | | 2007 | 565 | 0 | ||
| 'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2007 | 752 | 1 | ||
| Does antibiotic selection impact patient outcome? | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2007 | 559 | 0 | ||
| Infection control in countries with limited resources | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2007 | 578 | 0 | ||
| Behavioural considerations for hand hygiene practices: the basic building blocks | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2007 | 599 | 0 | ||
| Micafungin versus liposomal amphotericin B for candidaemia and invasive candidosis: a phase III randomised double-blind trial | Lancet | | 2007 | 687 | 0 | ||
| Reduction of health care associated infection risk in neonates by successful hand hygiene promotion | Pediatrics | | 2007 | 647 | 0 | ||
| Staffing level: a determinant of late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia | Critical care | | 2007 | 570 | 310 | ||
| Double-blind, randomized, crossover trial of 3 hand rub formulations: fast-track evaluation of tolerability and acceptability | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2007 | 655 | 0 | ||
| Age limit does not replace serologic testing for determination of immune status for measles | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2007 | 553 | 0 | ||
| Evaluation of three molecular assays for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2007 | 523 | 0 | ||
| The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients | Critical care medicine | | 2007 | 668 | 0 | ||
| Nurse staffing level and nosocomial infections: empirical evaluation of the case-crossover and case-time-control designs | American journal of epidemiology | | 2007 | 701 | 0 | ||
| Liquid versus gel handrub formulation: a prospective intervention study | Critical care | | 2007 | 633 | 326 | ||
| Determinants of good adherence to hand hygiene among healthcare workers who have extensive exposure to hand hygiene campaigns | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2007 | 667 | 0 | ||
| The First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care": from launch to current progress and achievements | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2007 | 591 | 0 | ||
| Impact d'une campagne de communication sur les médias traditionnels. Analyse quantitative et comparaison internationale. CLIP-H : Communication Language Internet Project in Health | Journée des doctorants - Langage et Communication | | 2006 | 384 | 6 | ||
| Treatment options of invasive fungal infections in adults | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | | 2006 | 654 | 0 | ||
| Muslim health-care workers and alcohol-based handrubs | Lancet | | 2006 | 625 | 0 | ||
| Projet noma: un activité chirurgicale et un projet de recherche | Revue médicale suisse | | 2006 | 463 | 1 | ||
| Primary invasive aspergillosis of the digestive tract: report of two cases and review of the literature | Infection | | 2006 | 736 | 220 | ||
| Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2006 | 670 | 0 | ||
| Postoperative fungal infections | Surgical infections | | 2006 | 641 | 0 | ||
| Challenging the world: patient safety and health care-associated infection | International journal for quality in health care | | 2006 | 581 | 0 | ||
| Rapid Staphylococcus aureus agr type determination by a novel multiplex real-time quantitative PCR assay | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2006 | 686 | 0 | ||
| A randomized double-blind trial of iseganan in prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | | 2006 | 586 | 0 | ||
| Control of a cluster of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in neonatology | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2006 | 543 | 0 | ||
| Outbreak of endophthalmitis after cataract surgery: the importance of the quality of the surgical wound | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2006 | 708 | 0 | ||
| Reduction of urinary tract infection and antibiotic use after surgery: a controlled, prospective, before-after intervention study | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2006 | 632 | 0 | ||
| Use of oligoarrays for characterization of community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2006 | 631 | 0 | ||
| Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission | The American journal of medicine | | 2006 | 545 | 0 | ||
| Skin reactions related to hand hygiene and selection of hand hygiene products | American journal of infection control | | 2006 | 603 | 5 | ||
| Evaluation of rapid screening and pre-emptive contact isolation for detecting and controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in critical care: an interventional cohort study | Critical care | | 2006 | 647 | 253 | ||
| 'Clean Care is Safer Care': the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006 | International journal of infectious diseases | | 2006 | 641 | 1 | ||
| Infection and rejection in liver transplant patients: a 10-year Swiss single-centre experience | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | | 2005 | 628 | 238 | ||
| Nosocomial bacteremia: clinical significance of a single blood culture positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2005 | 639 | 0 | ||
| Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2005 | 601 | 0 | ||
| Invasive candidiasis: comparison of management choices by infectious disease and critical care specialists | Intensive care medicine | | 2005 | 679 | 300 | ||
| Clean hands reduce the burden of disease | Lancet | | 2005 | 550 | 0 | ||
| Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Switzerland | Emerging infectious diseases | | 2005 | 579 | 21 | ||
| Considerations for a WHO European strategy on health-care-associated infection, surveillance, and control | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2005 | 613 | 0 | ||
| Pasteurella multocida endophthalmitis: case report and review of the literature | Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde | 2005 | 688 | 0 | |||
| Die Folgen einer ungenügenden Herdimmunität bei «pädiatrischen» Infektionskrankheiten - Beispiel einer Masernepidemie | Therapeutische Umschau | | 2005 | 661 | 0 | ||
| Clean Care is Safer Care: a worldwide priority | Lancet | | 2005 | 506 | 0 | ||
| Infection control and quality health care in the new millennium | American journal of infection control | | 2005 | 470 | 0 | ||
| Lack of effect of combination antibiotic therapy on mortality in patients with pneumococcal sepsis | European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases | | 2005 | 548 | 278 | ||
| Infection in breast implants | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2005 | 614 | 0 | ||
| Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2005 | 628 | 0 | ||
| Comparative efficacy of hand hygiene agents in the reduction of bacteria and viruses | American journal of infection control | | 2005 | 611 | 0 | ||
| Long-term reduction of vascular access-associated bloodstream infection | Annals of internal medicine | | 2005 | 630 | 0 | ||
| Clean Care is Safer Care: the first global challenge of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2005 | 598 | 0 | ||
| Clean care is safer care: the first global challenge of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety | American journal of infection control | | 2005 | 550 | 0 | ||
| Attitudes and perceptions toward hand hygiene among healthcare workers caring for critically ill neonates | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2005 | 604 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge of standard and isolation precautions in a large teaching hospital | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2005 | 663 | 0 | ||
| Prevalence and prediction of previously unknown MRSA carriage on admission to a geriatric hospital | Age and ageing | | 2005 | 639 | 166 | ||
| Nursing resources: a major determinant of nosocomial infection? | Current opinion in infectious diseases | | 2004 | 668 | 0 | ||
| Catheter-related infections | Microbes and infection | | 2004 | 609 | 0 | ||
| A novel multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid typing of major staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2004 | 615 | 0 | ||
| Is anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy associated with increased mortality in patients with severe sepsis caused by pneumonia? | The Journal of infectious diseases | | 2004 | 513 | 0 | ||
| Dynamics of bacterial hand contamination during routine neonatal care | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2004 | 572 | 2 | ||
| Hand hygiene among physicians: performance, beliefs, and perceptions | Annals of internal medicine | | 2004 | 638 | 0 | ||
| Enjeux, stratégies de traitement et évolution clinique des bactériémies a SARM | La Presse médicale | 2004 | 537 | 0 | |||
| Nosocomial bloodstream infection and clinical sepsis | Emerging infectious diseases | | 2004 | 578 | 0 | ||
| Semmelweis' legacy: insights from an international survey among 265,000 students in 32 countries | International journal of hygiene and environmental health | | 2004 | 654 | 0 | ||
| Impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia on resource utilization and patient outcome | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2004 | 626 | 0 | ||
| The Lowbury lecture: behaviour in infection control | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2004 | 636 | 0 | ||
| 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 | Clinical nutrition | | 2004 | 579 | 0 | ||
| Comparative analysis and validation of different assays for glycopeptide susceptibility among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains | Journal of microbiological methods | | 2004 | 636 | 0 | ||
| Role de l'hygiène hospitalière dans la réduction de la résistance aux antibiotiques | Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine | 2004 | 599 | 0 | |||
| Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2004 | 788 | 2 | ||
| Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome in critical care: do we need a change? | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | | 2004 | 607 | 0 | ||
| Epidemiology of candidemia in Swiss tertiary care hospitals: secular trends, 1991-2000 | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2004 | 604 | 0 | ||
| Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2003 | 574 | 0 | ||
| Noma: an "infectious" disease of unknown aetiology | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2003 | 721 | 2 | ||
| Hand antisepsis: evaluation of a sprayer system for alcohol distribution | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2003 | 584 | 0 | ||
| Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from sterile or nonsterile clinical samples by a new molecular assay | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 2003 | 562 | 0 | ||
| Bacteremic sepsis in intensive care: temporal trends in incidence, organ dysfunction, and prognosis | Critical care medicine | | 2003 | 472 | 0 | ||
| Hand-cleansing during postanesthesia care | Anesthesiology | | 2003 | 530 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene: improved standards and practice for hospital care | Current opinion in infectious diseases | | 2003 | 554 | 0 | ||
| Comparison of waterless hand antisepsis agents at short application times: raising the flag of concern | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2003 | 551 | 1 | ||
| Effect of vancomycin therapy for osteomyelitis on colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: lack of emergence of glycopeptide resistance | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2003 | 656 | 0 | ||
| Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy and its effect on survival in a clinical trial of immunomodulating therapy for severe sepsis | The American journal of medicine | | 2003 | 582 | 0 | ||
| Acute respiratory distress syndrome after bacteremic sepsis does not increase mortality | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | | 2003 | 642 | 0 | ||
| Control of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: where shall we send our hospital director next time? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2003 | 576 | 0 | ||
| Revolutionising hand hygiene in health-care settings: guidelines revisited | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2003 | 557 | 0 | ||
| Are there regional variations in the diagnosis, surveillance, and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2003 | 497 | 0 | ||
| Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking | Intensive care medicine | | 2003 | 666 | 253 | ||
| Management of Candida species infections in critically ill patients | Lancet. Infectious diseases | | 2003 | 477 | 0 | ||
| Legionnaires' disease in a renal transplant recipient: nosocomial or home-grown? | Transplantation | | 2002 | 552 | 0 | ||
| Overview of catheter-related infections with special emphasis on prevention based on educational programs | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2002 | 562 | 0 | ||
| Management of viral haemorrhagic fevers in Switzerland | Euro surveillance | 2002 | 581 | 0 | |||
| Interhospital differences in nosocomial infection rates: importance of case-mix adjustment | Archives of internal medicine | | 2002 | 500 | 0 | ||
| Interventional study to evaluate the impact of an alcohol-based hand gel in improving hand hygiene compliance | The Pediatric infectious disease journal | | 2002 | 709 | 0 | ||
| Prevention of severe Candida infections in nonneutropenic, high-risk, critically ill patients: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients treated by selective digestive decontamination | Intensive care medicine | | 2002 | 594 | 0 | ||
| Environmental controls in operating theatres | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2002 | 672 | 0 | ||
| 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 | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2002 | 715 | 1 | ||
| 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 | Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports | | 2002 | 650 | 0 | ||
| Molecular epidemiology of predominant clones and sporadic strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Switzerland and comparison with European epidemic clones | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2002 | 655 | 0 | ||
| Alcohol-based handrub improves compliance with hand hygiene in intensive care units | Archives of internal medicine | | 2002 | 589 | 0 | ||
| Intensive care unit-acquired infections: is postdischarge surveillance useful? | Critical care medicine | | 2002 | 566 | 0 | ||
| Limited efficacy of alcohol-based hand gels | Lancet | | 2002 | 620 | 0 | ||
| Promotion of hand hygiene: magic, hype, or scientific challenge? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2002 | 567 | 0 | ||
| 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 | American journal of infection control | | 2002 | 528 | 0 | ||
| Prevention of bloodstream infections with central venous catheters treated with anti-infective agents depends on catheter type and insertion time: evidence from a meta-analysis | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2002 | 594 | 1 | ||
| Secular trends of candidemia over 12 years in adult patients at a tertiary care hospital | Medicine | | 2002 | 592 | 0 | ||
| Infective endocarditis: too ill to be operated? | Critical care | | 2002 | 657 | 143 | ||
| Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results of a nation-wide survey in Switzerland | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | | 2002 | 639 | 0 | ||
| Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bloodstream infections in surgical intensive care | Archives of surgery | | 2002 | 574 | 0 | ||
| Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the endemic hospital: what have we learned? | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2001 | 620 | 0 | ||
| Compliance with hand hygiene practice in pediatric intensive care | Pediatric critical care medicine | | 2001 | 567 | 0 | ||
| Compliance with hand disinfection and its impact on hospital-acquired infections | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2001 | 635 | 0 | ||
| Arterial mycotic aneurysm rupture following kidney-pancreatic transplantation with exocrine pancreatic drainage into the bladder: an unusual observation | Annals of vascular surgery | | 2001 | 694 | 0 | ||
| Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8 in critically ill patients admitted with suspected sepsis | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | | 2001 | 623 | 0 | ||
| Special article: New concepts in hand hygiene | Seminars in pediatric infectious diseases | | 2001 | 417 | 1 | ||
| Nonantibibiotic measures for the prevention of Gram-positive infections | Clinical microbiology and infection | 2001 | 639 | 0 | |||
| Candidoses du sujet non neutropénique: de la colonisation à l'infection | Annales françaises d'anesthésie et de réanimation | | 2001 | 665 | 0 | ||
| Infection control in the ICU | Chest | | 2001 | 986 | 0 | ||
| Variation in nosocomial infection prevalence according to patient care setting:a hospital-wide survey | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2001 | 681 | 0 | ||
| Improving adherence to hand hygiene practice: a multidisciplinary approach | Emerging infectious diseases | | 2001 | 609 | 0 | ||
| Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia by oral decontamination: just another SDD study? | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | | 2001 | 543 | 0 | ||
| Candidoses invasives en réanimation | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | | 2000 | 614 | 0 | ||
| Improving compliance with hand hygiene in hospitals | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2000 | 622 | 0 | ||
| "Chance makes a football of man's life" | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 2000 | 632 | 2 | ||
| Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Infection Control Programme | Lancet | | 2000 | 839 | 0 | ||
| Disinfectants that do | Current opinion in infectious diseases | | 2000 | 526 | 0 | ||
| Hand hygiene-beliefs or science? | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 2000 | 613 | 0 | ||
| Risk factors for persistent carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Clinical infectious diseases | | 2000 | 643 | 0 | ||
| Problems and solutions in hospital-acquired bacteraemia | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2000 | 573 | 0 | ||
| Towards invasive diagnostic techniques as standard management of ventilator-associated pneumonia | Lancet | | 2000 | 485 | 0 | ||
| Hand Hygiene Revisited: Lessons from the Past and Present | Current infectious disease reports | | 2000 | 610 | 0 | ||
| Impact of a prevention strategy targeted at vascular-access care on incidence of infections acquired in intensive care | Lancet | | 2000 | 584 | 0 | ||
| Effect of delayed infection control measures on a hospital outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | The Journal of hospital infection | | 2000 | 619 | 0 | ||
| Clinical implications of stenotrophomonas maltophilia resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole: a study of 69 patients at 2 university hospitals | Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases | | 2000 | 586 | 0 | ||
| Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program | Annals of internal medicine | | 1999 | 704 | 1 | ||
| Impact and pattern of gram-negative bacteraemia during 6 y at a large university hospital | Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases | | 1999 | 610 | 0 | ||
| Multiresistance of gram-negative bacteria in intensive care units: bad news from without | Critical care medicine | 1999 | 545 | 0 | |||
| Outcome of diabetic foot infections treated conservatively: a retrospective cohort study with long-term follow-up | Archives of internal medicine | | 1999 | 516 | 0 | ||
| Routine disinfection of patients' environmental surfaces. Myth or reality? | The Journal of hospital infection | | 1999 | 650 | 0 | ||
| Nosocomial fungal infection: diagnosis and typing | The Journal of hospital infection | | 1999 | 489 | 0 | ||
| Impact of immunomodulating therapy on morbidity in patients with severe sepsis | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | | 1999 | 580 | 0 | ||
| Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial to evaluate the efficacy of mupirocin for eradicating carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy | | 1999 | 683 | 0 | ||
| The role of glycopeptide antibiotics in the treatment of infective endocarditis | International journal of antimicrobial agents | | 1999 | 550 | 0 | ||
| Bacterial contamination of the hands of hospital staff during routine patient care | Archives of internal medicine | | 1999 | 659 | 0 | ||
| Nosocomial infections in Swiss university hospitals: a multi-centre survey and review of the published experience. Swiss-Noso Network | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | | 1999 | 675 | 0 | ||
| Outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae related to understaffing, overcrowding, and poor hygiene practices | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1999 | 682 | 0 | ||
| Infection control and hospital epidemiology outside the United States | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1999 | 576 | 0 | ||
| Prevalence and risk factors for nosocomial infections in four university hospitals in Switzerland | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1999 | 654 | 0 | ||
| The dynamics of disease progression in sepsis: Markov modeling describing the natural history and the likely impact of effective antisepsis agents | Clinical infectious diseases | | 1998 | 570 | 0 | ||
| Invasive aspergillosis. Clinical features of 35 proven cases at a single institution | Medicine | 1998 | 603 | 0 | |||
| Prévalence des infections nosocomiales dans un hôpital universitaire: distribution, facteurs prédisposants et indices diagnostiques | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1998 | 606 | 0 | |||
| Increasing bacteremia due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: fiction or reality? | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1998 | 608 | 0 | ||
| Resistance to amikacin and gentamicin among Gram-negative bloodstream isolates in a university hospital between 1989 and 1994 | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 1998 | 644 | 0 | ||
| Influenza immunization: improving compliance of healthcare workers | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1998 | 521 | 0 | ||
| Cefepime--assessment of its need at a tertiary care center | Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics | 1998 | 543 | 0 | |||
| MRSA--a European currency of infection control | QJM | | 1998 | 588 | 0 | ||
| Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of systemic Candida infection in surgical patients under intensive care | Intensive care medicine | | 1998 | 605 | 0 | ||
| Impact of methicillin resistance on the outcome of patients with bacteremia caused by Staphylococcus aureus | Archives of internal medicine | | 1998 | 531 | 0 | ||
| Infective endocarditis and glycopeptides | The Journal of infection | | 1998 | 594 | 0 | ||
| What techniques for diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia? | Lancet | | 1998 | 584 | 0 | ||
| Microbiological factors influencing the outcome of nosocomial bloodstream infections: a 6-year validated, population-based model | Clinical infectious diseases | | 1997 | 609 | 0 | ||
| To control or not to control colonization with MRSA... that's the question! | QJM | | 1997 | 480 | 0 | ||
| Transmission inter- et intrahospitalière de staphylocoques dores résistants à la méticilline | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1997 | 637 | 0 | |||
| Identifying the hospitalized patient at risk for nosocomial bloodstream infection: a population-based study | Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians | 1997 | 554 | 0 | |||
| Empirical antibacterial treatment for sepsis and the role of glycopeptides: recommendations from a European panel | Clinical microbiology and infection | | 1997 | 567 | 0 | ||
| Etiological agents of infectious diarrhea: implications for requests for microbial culture | Journal of clinical microbiology | | 1997 | 567 | 0 | ||
| Unusual cause of lethal pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | 1996 | 593 | 0 | |||
| Fatal concomitant nosocomial Legionnaires' disease and cytomegalovirus pneumonitis after cardiac transplantation | Intensive care medicine | | 1996 | 585 | 3 | ||
| Predicting nosocomial pneumonia in the ICU... an ongoing challenge | Intensive care medicine | 1996 | 579 | 0 | |||
| Predicting survival of patients with sepsis by use of regression and neural network models | Clinical performance and quality health care | 1996 | 635 | 0 | |||
| Automatic alerts for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and control: role of a hospital information system | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1996 | 612 | 0 | ||
| Bedside prediction of mortality from bacteremic sepsis. A dynamic analysis of ICU patients | American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine | 1996 | 634 | 0 | |||
| Infection control in Switzerland | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1995 | 531 | 0 | ||
| Intravascular device-related infections in critically ill patients | Journal of chemotherapy | 1995 | 541 | 0 | |||
| The natural history of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). A prospective study | JAMA | | 1995 | 784 | 0 | ||
| Nosocomial bloodstream infections. Secular trends in rates, mortality, and contribution to total hospital deaths | Archives of internal medicine | 1995 | 679 | 0 | |||
| Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock: incidence, morbidities and outcomes in surgical ICU patients | Intensive care medicine | 1995 | 639 | 0 | |||
| Prognostic importance of vital organ dysfunction in sepsis | Contributions to nephrology | 1995 | 512 | 0 | |||
| Infections à Candida aux soins intensifs | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1995 | 452 | 0 | |||
| Prospective randomized comparison of imipenem monotherapy with imipenem plus netilmicin for treatment of severe infections in nonneutropenic patients | Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy | | 1994 | 625 | 0 | ||
| Pneumonie nosocomiale: incidence, morbidité et mortalité chez le patient intubé-ventilé | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1994 | 766 | 0 | |||
| Second messenger specificity of the inositol trisphosphate receptor: reappraisal based on novel inositol phosphates | The American journal of physiology | | 1994 | 545 | 0 | ||
| Alèrtes informatiques et qualité des soins: application à la surveillance des infections hospitalières | Revue médicale de la Suisse romande | 1994 | 501 | 0 | |||
| Candida colonization and subsequent infections in critically ill surgical patients | Annals of surgery | | 1994 | 586 | 0 | ||
| Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality | JAMA | | 1994 | 601 | 0 | ||
| Infectious risk factors related to operating rooms | Infection control and hospital epidemiology | | 1994 | 585 | 0 | ||
| Fibronectin is more active than fibrin or fibrinogen in promoting Staphylococcus aureus adherence to inserted intravascular catheters | The Journal of infectious diseases | | 1993 | 647 | 0 | ||
| Association of secondary and polymicrobial nosocomial bloodstream infections with higher mortality | European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases | 1993 | 503 | 0 | |||
| Importance of pre-existing co-morbidities for prognosis of septicemia in critically ill patients | Intensive care medicine | 1993 | 720 | 0 | |||
| Inositol phosphates. Metabolism and site of action in neutrophil granulocytes | Advances in second messenger and phosphoprotein research | 1992 | 521 | 0 | |||
| InsP3 and Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 act in synergy to stimulate influx of extracellular Ca2+ in Xenopus oocytes | The American journal of physiology | | 1992 | 566 | 0 | ||
| Inositol tetrakisphosphate isomers and elevation of cytosolic Ca2+ in vasopressin-stimulated insulin-secreting RINm5F cells | The Journal of biological chemistry | | 1992 | 577 | 0 | ||
| Optimal duration of therapy for catheter-related Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia | Clinical infectious diseases | | 1992 | 424 | 0 | ||
| Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis of wound and foreign body infections: microbial factors affecting efficacy | Reviews of infectious diseases | | 1991 | 632 | 0 | ||
| Contour-clamped homogeneous electric field gel electrophoresis as a powerful epidemiologic tool in yeast infections | The American journal of medicine | 1991 | 644 | 0 | |||
| La transplantation hépatique. Expérience préliminaire de l'Hôpital cantonal universitaire de Genève | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1990 | 811 | 0 | |||
| Correlation between plasma membrane potential and second messenger generation in the promyelocytic cell line HL-60 | The Journal of biological chemistry | | 1990 | 520 | 0 | ||
| Paludisme des aéroports: mini-épidémie en Suisse | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1990 | 631 | 0 | |||
| Mass changes in inositol tetrakis- and pentakisphosphate isomers induced by chemotactic peptide stimulation in HL-60 cells | The Journal of biological chemistry | | 1989 | 533 | 0 | ||
| 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 | Journal of leukocyte biology | | 1989 | 636 | 1 | ||
| Calciosome, a sarcoplasmic reticulum-like organelle involved in intracellular Ca2+-handling by non-muscle cells: studies in human neutrophils and HL-60 cells | Cell calcium | 1989 | 640 | 0 | |||
| 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 | The Journal of biological chemistry | | 1989 | 545 | 0 | ||
| Host factors selectively increase staphylococcal adherence on inserted catheters: a role for fibronectin and fibrinogen or fibrin | The Journal of infectious diseases | | 1989 | 607 | 0 | ||
| Les infections liées aux cathéters intraveineux | Revue médicale de la Suisse romande | 1988 | 530 | 0 | |||
| Fibronectin, fibrinogen, and laminin act as mediators of adherence of clinical staphylococcal isolates to foreign material | The Journal of infectious diseases | | 1988 | 638 | 1 | ||
| Spontaneous and chemoattractant-induced oscillations of cytosolic free calcium in single adherent human neutrophils | The Journal of biological chemistry | | 1988 | 608 | 0 | ||
| Nonselective inhibition of neutrophil functions by sphinganine | The Journal of biological chemistry | | 1987 | 553 | 0 | ||
| Hautes doses d'immunoglobulines par voie intraveineuse pour le traitement des neutropénies "auto-immunes" | Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift | 1985 | 651 | 0 |
