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Hugo Sax

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Top papers

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1 Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients. JAMA 2008 7.60
2 Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices. Lancet Infect Dis 2006 4.02
3 Patient participation: current knowledge and applicability to patient safety. Mayo Clin Proc 2010 2.66
4 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
5 Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission. Am J Med 2006 1.90
6 Foreign body infections due to Staphylococcus epidermidis. Ann Med 2009 1.66
7 Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking. Intensive Care Med 2003 1.60
8 Temporal effects of antibiotic use and hand rub consumption on the incidence of MRSA and Clostridium difficile. J Antimicrob Chemother 2008 1.60
9 Learning from imbalanced data in surveillance of nosocomial infection. Artif Intell Med 2005 1.57
10 Endocarditis in older people. Age Ageing 2002 1.40
11 Transmission of Mycobacterium chimaera from Heater-Cooler Units during Cardiac Surgery despite an Ultraclean Air Ventilation System. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 1.39
12 Videos in clinical medicine. Hand hygiene. N Engl J Med 2011 1.38
13 Comparison of waterless hand antisepsis agents at short application times: raising the flag of concern. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2003 1.33
14 Nosocomial bacteremia: clinical significance of a single blood culture positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2005 1.29
15 Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2004 1.15
16 Ventilator-associated pneumonia as a quality indicator for patient safety? Clin Infect Dis 2008 1.12
17 Considerations for a WHO European strategy on health-care-associated infection, surveillance, and control. Lancet Infect Dis 2005 1.12
18 Catheter-related infections. Microbes Infect 2004 1.08
19 Reduction of urinary tract infection and antibiotic use after surgery: a controlled, prospective, before-after intervention study. Clin Infect Dis 2006 1.04
20 Nosocomial bloodstream infection and clinical sepsis. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 1.03
21 Patients' beliefs and perceptions of their participation to increase healthcare worker compliance with hand hygiene. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2009 1.00
22 Back to the future: rising to the Semmelweis challenge in hand hygiene. Future Microbiol 2011 0.98
23 A predictive model for identifying surgical patients at risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission. J Am Coll Surg 2008 0.97
24 Change of antibiotic susceptibility testing guidelines from CLSI to EUCAST: influence on cumulative hospital antibiograms. PLoS One 2013 0.95
25 Nursing resources: a major determinant of nosocomial infection? Curr Opin Infect Dis 2004 0.95
26 Double-blind, randomized, crossover trial of 3 hand rub formulations: fast-track evaluation of tolerability and acceptability. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007 0.93
27 Administrative data outperformed single-day chart review for comorbidity measure. Int J Qual Health Care 2007 0.92
28 Reemergence of Mycobacterium chimaera in Heater-Cooler Units despite Intensified Cleaning and Disinfection Protocol. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 0.88
29 Management of viral haemorrhagic fevers in Switzerland. Euro Surveill 2002 0.87
30 Hand hygiene practices and adherence determinants in surgical wards across Europe and Israel: a multicenter observational study. Am J Infect Control 2011 0.86
31 Evaluation of patients' mask use after the implementation of cough etiquette in the emergency department. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2009 0.85
32 Long-term reduction of vascular access-associated bloodstream infection. Ann Intern Med 2005 0.85
33 Cockroaches (Ectobius vittiventris) in an intensive care unit, Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis 2009 0.84
34 Effect of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by polymerase chain reaction on the duration of unnecessary preemptive contact isolation. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2008 0.83
35 High proportion of healthcare-associated urinary tract infection in the absence of prior exposure to urinary catheter: a cross-sectional study. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2013 0.82
36 Novelty detection using one-class Parzen density estimator. An application to surveillance of nosocomial infections. Stud Health Technol Inform 2008 0.81
37 Prevalence of nosocomial infections in Swiss children's hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2004 0.81
38 Assessing the burden of healthcare-associated infections through prevalence studies: what is the best method? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 0.80
39 Caregivers' perceptions of patients as reminders to improve hand hygiene. Arch Intern Med 2012 0.78
40 Intensive care unit-acquired infections: is postdischarge surveillance useful? Crit Care Med 2002 0.78
41 Does colonization with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus protect against nosocomial acquisition of methicillin-resistant S. aureus? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 0.77
42 In vivo detection of clonally derived methicillin-resistant/methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains is not a rare event. J Clin Microbiol 2008 0.75
43 [What is your diagnosis?]. Praxis (Bern 1994) 2015 0.75
44 Age limit does not replace serologic testing for determination of immune status for measles. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007 0.75
45 An application of one-class support vector machine to nosocomial infection detection. Stud Health Technol Inform 2004 0.75
46 Infectious risk moments: a novel, human factors-informed approach to infection prevention. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 0.75
47 ["Bad news" for nosocomial infections]. Krankenpfl Soins Infirm 2006 0.75
48 Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with heater-cooler units in cardiac surgery. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2017 0.75
49 Perforation and bacterial contamination of microscope covers in lumbar spinal decompressive surgery. Med Princ Pract 2014 0.75
50 Measuring the effectiveness of hospital-acquired infection prevention. Stud Health Technol Inform 2010 0.75