Standout Papers

Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hyg... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1.7k
  1. Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene (2000)
    Didier Pittet, Stéphane Hugonnet et al. The Lancet
  2. Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings (2002)
    John M. Boyce, Didier Pittet American Journal of Infection Control
  3. Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis (2010)
    Benedetta Allegranzi, S Bagheri Nejad et al. The Lancet
  4. The Natural History of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) (1995)
    M. Sigfrido Rangel‐Frausto, Didier Pittet et al. JAMA
  5. 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 (2002)
    John M. Boyce, Didier Pittet Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  6. Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality (1994)
    Didier Pittet JAMA
  7. Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Association for Professionals in Infection Control/Infectious Diseases Society of America. (2002)
    John M. Boyce, Didier Pittet et al. PubMed
  8. Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection in Critically III Patients (1994)
    Didier Pittet JAMA
  9. Compliance with Handwashing in a Teaching Hospital (1999)
    Didier Pittet, Philippe Mourouga et al. Annals of Internal Medicine
  10. Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients (2003)
    Philippe Eggimann, Jorge Garbino et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  11. Diagnostic Value of Procalcitonin, Interleukin-6, and Interleukin-8 in Critically Ill Patients Admitted with Suspected Sepsis (2001)
    Stephan Harbarth, K Holecková et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  12. Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention (2009)
    Benedetta Allegranzi, Didier Pittet Journal of Hospital Infection
  13. Candida Colonization and Subsequent Infections in Critically III Surgical Patients (1994)
    Didier Pittet, Michel Monod et al. Annals of Surgery
  14. Patient Participation: Current Knowledge and Applicability to Patient Safety (2009)
    Yves Longtin, Hugo Sax et al. Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  15. Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection (2016)
    Benedetta Allegranzi, P. Bischoff et al. Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern
  16. ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene (2007)
    Hugo Sax, Benedetta Allegranzi et al. Journal of Hospital Infection
  17. Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices (2006)
    Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  18. The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations (2009)
    Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi et al. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  19. New WHO recommendations on preoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective (2016)
    Benedetta Allegranzi, P. Bischoff et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  20. New WHO recommendations on intraoperative and postoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective (2016)
    Benedetta Allegranzi, Bassim Zayed et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  21. Fibronectin, Fibrinogen, and Laminin Act as Mediators of Adherence of Clinical Staphylococcal Isolates to Foreign Material (1988)
    Mathias Herrmann, Pierre Vaudaux et al. The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  22. Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers (2021)
    Mohamed Abbas, Tomás Robalo Nunes et al. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Immediate Impact

5 by Nobel laureates 4 from Science/Nature 108 standout
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The first WHO global survey on infection prevention and control in health-care facilities
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Author Peers

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Didier Pittet 21072 9694 7149 562 41.8k
John G. Bartlett 15127 19372 6257 391 42.4k
William R. Jarvis 12437 10369 4939 469 40.1k
Robert A. Weinstein 9149 7122 3885 344 26.8k
Jonathan R. Edwards 8522 8352 5909 168 27.3k
Matthew E. Falagas 7924 15007 3079 589 46.4k
David L. Paterson 14750 18555 3253 571 59.2k
Marin H. Kollef 8443 17495 17796 534 39.4k
Issam Raad 13733 14839 3442 484 35.8k
Emilio Bouza 15377 15559 2470 853 28.3k
Victoria J. Fraser 7060 8445 5981 324 24.3k

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