Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

B Allegranzi, SB Nejad, C Combescure, W Graafmans… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
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 …

Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention

B Allegranzi, D Pittet - Journal of hospital infection, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …

Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices

D Pittet, B Allegranzi, H Sax, S Dharan… - The Lancet infectious …, 2006 - thelancet.com
Hand cleansing is the primary action to reduce health-care-associated infection and cross-
transmission of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Patient-to-patient transmission of …

'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene

H Sax, B Allegranzi, I Uckay, E Larson, J Boyce… - Journal of Hospital …, 2007 - Elsevier
Hand hygiene is a core element of patient safety for the prevention of healthcare-associated
infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Its promotion represents a challenge …

The World Health Organization guidelines on hand hygiene in health care and their consensus recommendations

D Pittet, B Allegranzi, J Boyce… - Infection Control & …, 2009 - cambridge.org
The World Health Organization's Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care have been
issued by WHO Patient Safety on 5 May 2009 on the occasion of the launch of the Save …

New WHO recommendations on preoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective

B Allegranzi, P Bischoff, S de Jonge… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most preventable health-care-associated
infections and are a substantial burden to health-care systems and service payers …

New WHO recommendations on intraoperative and postoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective

B Allegranzi, B Zayed, P Bischoff… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common health-care-associated infections in
developing countries, but they also represent a substantial epidemiological burden in high …

Managing COVID-19 in low-and middle-income countries

J Hopman, B Allegranzi, S Mehtar - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
(COVID-19) in China has illustrated that it is possible to contain COVID-19 if governments
focus on tried and tested public health outbreak responses. 1, 2 Isolation, quarantine, social …

[PDF][PDF] Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review

SB Nejad, B Allegranzi, SB Syed… - Bulletin of the World …, 2011 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To assess the epidemiology of endemic health-care-associated infection (HAI)
in Africa. METHODS: Three databases (PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and the WHO …

Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus

W Zingg, A Holmes, M Dettenkofer… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Despite control efforts, the burden of health-care-associated infections in Europe is high and
leads to around 37 000 deaths each year. We did a systematic review to identify crucial …