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Performance feedback of hand hygiene, using alcohol gel as the skin decontaminant, reduces the number of inpatients newly affected by MRSA and antibiotic costs

A. S. Macdonald, Feroz Dinah, David MacKenzie, A.P.R. Wilson

Journal of Hospital Infection · 2003 · 117 citations · 12 references

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Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene

Didier Pittet, Stéphane Hugonnet, Stephan Harbarth et al. · The Lancet · 2000 · 2.5K citations

Public Health, Public Health Practice, Health Care Compliance +11

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

John M. Boyce, Didier Pittet · Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) · 2002 · 358 citations

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +17

The epic Project: Developing National Evidence-based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare associated Infections

Carol Pellowe, N. Robinson, G W Smith et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection · 2001 · 356 citations

Public Health, Infectious Diseases, Preventive Medicine +16

Nursing staff workload as a determinant of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus spread in an adult intensive therapy unit

A.F. Vicca · Journal of Hospital Infection · 1999 · 173 citations

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +15

Teaching hospital medical staff to handwash

James Tibballs · The Medical Journal of Australia · 1996 · 157 citations

Public Health, Medical Education, Hospital Medicine +11