Published in Int J Antimicrob Agents on January 01, 2009
Vascular access port implantation and serial blood sampling in a Gottingen minipig (Sus scrofa domestica) model of acute radiation injury. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci (2011) 0.87
The effect of saline lock on phlebitis rates of patients in cardiac care units. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res (2015) 0.78
Methods to identify saline-contaminated electrolyte profiles. Clin Chem Lab Med (2015) 0.75
The Incidence of Peripheral Catheter-Related Thrombosis in Surgical Patients. Thrombosis (2016) 0.75
Prospective pilot study on the incidence of infections caused by peripheral venous catheters at a general surgical ward. GMS Hyg Infect Control (2013) 0.75
Peripheral Venous Catheter-Related Adverse Events: Evaluation from a Multicentre Epidemiological Study in France (the CATHEVAL Project). PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Fragmentation of care threatens patient safety in peripheral vascular catheter management in acute care--a qualitative study. PLoS One (2014) 0.75
Antimicrobial Activity of a Novel Vascular Access Film Dressing Containing Chlorhexidine Gluconate. PLoS One (2015) 0.75
Securing All intraVenous devices Effectively in hospitalised patients--the SAVE trial: study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open (2015) 0.75
Effect of shorter term of intravenous infusion for reduction of catheter-related bloodstream infection after gastrectomy. Int Surg (2013) 0.75
Differences in microorganism growth on various dressings used to cover injection sites: inspection of the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infections caused by Gram-negative bacilli. Surg Today (2014) 0.75
Incidence and risk factors of infections associated with peripheral intravenous catheters. J Infect Prev (2016) 0.75
Infection risks associated with peripheral vascular catheters. J Infect Prev (2016) 0.75
Heparinized saline versus normal saline for maintaining peripheral venous catheter patency in China: An open-label, randomized controlled study. J Int Med Res (2017) 0.75
Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients. JAMA (2008) 7.60
Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2010) 6.16
Limited efficacy of alcohol-based hand gels. Lancet (2002) 4.65
Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy and its effect on survival in a clinical trial of immunomodulating therapy for severe sepsis. Am J Med (2003) 4.56
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. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2002) 4.26
Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 3.33
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 Med (2002) 3.33
Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from sterile or nonsterile clinical samples by a new molecular assay. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 3.27
Epidemiology of candidemia in Swiss tertiary care hospitals: secular trends, 1991-2000. Clin Infect Dis (2004) 3.25
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 3.18
Micafungin versus liposomal amphotericin B for candidaemia and invasive candidosis: a phase III randomised double-blind trial. Lancet (2007) 3.11
Ready for a world without antibiotics? The Pensières Antibiotic Resistance Call to Action. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2012) 3.02
Developed-developing country partnerships: benefits to developed countries? Global Health (2012) 2.80
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. Am J Infect Control (2002) 2.68
Patient participation: current knowledge and applicability to patient safety. Mayo Clin Proc (2010) 2.66
Society's failure to protect a precious resource: antibiotics. Lancet (2011) 2.51
The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients. Crit Care Med (2007) 2.42
Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral hospital in Mali, Africa. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2010) 2.35
Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 2.18
Global implementation of WHO's multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene: a quasi-experimental study. Lancet Infect Dis (2013) 2.15
Infection in breast implants. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 2.06
The World Health Organization hand hygiene observation method. Am J Infect Control (2009) 2.01
Evaluation of three molecular assays for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.97
Interventional study to evaluate the impact of an alcohol-based hand gel in improving hand hygiene compliance. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2002) 1.92
Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission. Am J Med (2006) 1.90
Does antibiotic selection impact patient outcome? Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.88
Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.88
Evaluation of rapid screening and pre-emptive contact isolation for detecting and controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in critical care: an interventional cohort study. Crit Care (2006) 1.86
Noma: an "infectious" disease of unknown aetiology. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 1.70
Foreign body infections due to Staphylococcus epidermidis. Ann Med (2009) 1.66
A novel multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid typing of major staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.63
Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.62
Alcohol-based handrub improves compliance with hand hygiene in intensive care units. Arch Intern Med (2002) 1.60
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking. Intensive Care Med (2003) 1.60
Temporal effects of antibiotic use and hand rub consumption on the incidence of MRSA and Clostridium difficile. J Antimicrob Chemother (2008) 1.60
Patient empowerment and multimodal hand hygiene promotion: a win-win strategy. Am J Med Qual (2010) 1.58
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.55
Clinical and nonclinical health care workers faced a similar risk of acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.54
Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bloodstream infections in surgical intensive care. Arch Surg (2002) 1.51
Legionnaires' disease in a renal transplant recipient: nosocomial or home-grown? Transplantation (2002) 1.51
Use of benchmarking and public reporting for infection control in four high-income countries. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 1.50
Infection and rejection in liver transplant patients: a 10-year Swiss single-centre experience. Swiss Med Wkly (2005) 1.48
Healthcare-associated infection in developing countries: simple solutions to meet complex challenges. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2007) 1.40
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. Clin Nutr (2004) 1.38
Videos in clinical medicine. Hand hygiene. N Engl J Med (2011) 1.38
Dynamics of bacterial hand contamination during routine neonatal care. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2004) 1.37
Secular trends of candidemia over 12 years in adult patients at a tertiary care hospital. Medicine (Baltimore) (2002) 1.33
Management of Candida species infections in critically ill patients. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 1.33
Comparison of waterless hand antisepsis agents at short application times: raising the flag of concern. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2003) 1.33
Nosocomial bacteremia: clinical significance of a single blood culture positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2005) 1.29
Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? Reliability of the international health regulations notification assessment process. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.27
Prevalence and prediction of previously unknown MRSA carriage on admission to a geriatric hospital. Age Ageing (2005) 1.27
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-2005. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.21
Bacterial diversity in oral samples of children in niger with acute noma, acute necrotizing gingivitis, and healthy controls. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2012) 1.19
Determinants of good adherence to hand hygiene among healthcare workers who have extensive exposure to hand hygiene campaigns. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2007) 1.17
Reduction of health care associated infection risk in neonates by successful hand hygiene promotion. Pediatrics (2007) 1.17
Novel microarray design strategy to study complex bacterial communities. Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 1.14
The First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care": from launch to current progress and achievements. J Hosp Infect (2007) 1.14
Staffing level: a determinant of late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia. Crit Care (2007) 1.13
Ventilator-associated pneumonia as a quality indicator for patient safety? Clin Infect Dis (2008) 1.12
Attitudes and perceptions toward hand hygiene among healthcare workers caring for critically ill neonates. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2005) 1.10
Infection control in paediatrics. Lancet Infect Dis (2008) 1.10
Priority actions to fight antibiotic resistance: results of an international meeting. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2012) 1.10
Interhospital differences in nosocomial infection rates: importance of case-mix adjustment. Arch Intern Med (2002) 1.09
Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results of a nation-wide survey in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly (2002) 1.08
Catheter-related infections. Microbes Infect (2004) 1.08
Religion and culture: potential undercurrents influencing hand hygiene promotion in health care. Am J Infect Control (2008) 1.06
Healthcare-associated infections in neonates. Curr Opin Infect Dis (2008) 1.06
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. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2002) 1.05
Use of oligoarrays for characterization of community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.05
Reduction of urinary tract infection and antibiotic use after surgery: a controlled, prospective, before-after intervention study. Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.04
Liquid versus gel handrub formulation: a prospective intervention study. Crit Care (2007) 1.04
Nosocomial bloodstream infection and clinical sepsis. Emerg Infect Dis (2004) 1.03
Muslim health-care workers and alcohol-based handrubs. Lancet (2006) 1.01
Modified World Health Organization hand rub formulations comply with European efficacy requirements for preoperative surgical hand preparations. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2013) 1.00
Rapid Staphylococcus aureus agr type determination by a novel multiplex real-time quantitative PCR assay. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.00
Patients' beliefs and perceptions of their participation to increase healthcare worker compliance with hand hygiene. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2009) 1.00
Candida colonization index and subsequent infection in critically ill surgical patients: 20 years later. Intensive Care Med (2014) 0.99
Back to the future: rising to the Semmelweis challenge in hand hygiene. Future Microbiol (2011) 0.98
Impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia on resource utilization and patient outcome. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2004) 0.97
A predictive model for identifying surgical patients at risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission. J Am Coll Surg (2008) 0.97
Preventing catheter-related bloodstream infections: thinking outside the checklist. JAMA (2009) 0.97
Preventing surgical site infections. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther (2010) 0.97
Nurse staffing level and nosocomial infections: empirical evaluation of the case-crossover and case-time-control designs. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 0.97
Nursing resources: a major determinant of nosocomial infection? Curr Opin Infect Dis (2004) 0.95
Strengthening the evidence-policy interface for patient safety: enhancing global health through hospital partnerships. Global Health (2013) 0.93
Effectiveness of a hand hygiene promotion strategy using alcohol-based handrub in 6 intensive care units in Colombia. Am J Infect Control (2011) 0.93
Effect of vancomycin therapy for osteomyelitis on colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: lack of emergence of glycopeptide resistance. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2003) 0.92
Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2008) 0.92
Decolonization of intestinal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae with oral colistin and neomycin: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Antimicrob Chemother (2013) 0.92
Comparative efficacy of hand hygiene agents in the reduction of bacteria and viruses. Am J Infect Control (2005) 0.92
Rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates by automated multilocus variable-number of tandem repeats: a tool for real-time epidemiology. J Microbiol Methods (2008) 0.91
Overall burden of healthcare-associated infections among surgical patients. Results of a national study. Ann Surg (2011) 0.91
Preventing infections acquired during health-care delivery. Lancet (2008) 0.91
Access to antibiotics: a safety and equity challenge for the next decade. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2013) 0.90
Are there regional variations in the diagnosis, surveillance, and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2003) 0.90
Invasive candidiasis: comparison of management choices by infectious disease and critical care specialists. Intensive Care Med (2005) 0.90
Skin reactions related to hand hygiene and selection of hand hygiene products. Am J Infect Control (2006) 0.90
Treatment options of invasive fungal infections in adults. Swiss Med Wkly (2006) 0.90