Promoting hand hygiene in healthcare through national/subnational campaigns

CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting

Teresa Horan, Mary Andrus, Margaret A. Dudeck · American Journal of Infection Control · 2008 · 6.6K citations

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +16

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

Clean Care is Safer Care: a worldwide priority

Didier Pittet, Liam Donaldson · The Lancet · 2005 · 229 citations · Full text

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +13

Significant reductions in methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and clinical isolates associated with a multisite, hand hygiene culture‐change program and subsequent successful statewide roll‐out

M. Lindsay Grayson, Lisa J Jarvie, Rhea Martin et al. · The Medical Journal of Australia · 2008 · 177 citations

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +17

Curbing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in 38 French Hospitals Through a 15-Year Institutional Control Program

Vincent Jarlier · Archives of Internal Medicine · 2010 · 156 citations

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +17