The Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings provides health-care workers
(HCWs) with a review of data regarding handwashing and hand antisepsis in health-care …

Background Health-care-associated infection is the most frequent result of unsafe patient
care worldwide, but few data are available from the developing world. We aimed to assess …

Healthcare workers' hands are the most common vehicle for the transmission of healthcare-
associated pathogens from patient to patient and within the healthcare environment. Hand …

Background Assessing the burden of COVID-19 on the basis of medically attended case
numbers is suboptimal given its reliance on testing strategy, changing case definitions, and …

Background Hand hygiene prevents cross infection in hospitals, but compliance with
recommended instructions is commonly poor. We attempted to promote hand hygiene by …

Objective.—Define the epidemiology of the four recently classified syndromes describing the
biologic response to infection: systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis …

Objective.—To determine the excess length of stay, extra costs, and mortality attributable to
nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Design.—Pairwise-matched (1: 1) …

Background: Transmission of microorganisms from the hands of health care workers is the
main source of cross-infection in hospitals and can be prevented by handwashing …

To assess the diagnostic value of procalcitonin (PCT), interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, and standard
measurements in identifying critically ill patients with sepsis, we performed prospective …

A substantial proportion of patients become colonised with Candida spp during hospital
stay, but only few subsequently develop severe infection. Clinical signs of severe infection …