Topic · Infection Control in Healthcare
Most cited papers in Infection Control in Healthcare
What are the most cited papers in Infection Control in Healthcare?
The most cited paper in Infection Control in Healthcare is "Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections" (Shelley S. Magill, Jonathan R. Edwards, Wendy Bamberg et al., 2014), with 4,028 citations. Next come "International Study of the Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection in Intensive Care Units" (3,682) and "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017" (3,599).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 552 citations is listed.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections Shelley S. Magill, Jonathan R. Edwards, Wendy Bamberg et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 26 Mar 2014 | 4,028 |
| 2 | International Study of the Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection in Intensive Care Units Jean‐Louis Vincent · JAMA | Dec 2009 | 3,682 |
| 3 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 Sandra I. Berríos-Torres, Craig A. Umscheid, Dale W. Bratzler et al. · JAMA Surgery | 3 May 2017 | 3,599 |
| 4 | 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings Jane D. Siegel, Emily Rhinehart, Marguerite McMillan Jackson et al. · American Journal of Infection Control | Dec 2007 | 3,489 |
| 5 | Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States Fernanda C. Lessa, Yi Mu, Wendy Bamberg et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 25 Feb 2015 | 2,649 |
| 6 | Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis Benedetta Allegranzi, Sepideh Bagheri Nejad, Christophe Combescure et al. · The Lancet | 10 Dec 2010 | 2,590 |
| 7 | How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review Axel Krämer, Ingeborg Schwebke, Günter Kampf · BMC Infectious Diseases | 16 Aug 2006 | 2,546 |
| 8 | Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene Didier Pittet, Stéphane Hugonnet, Stephan Harbarth et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2000 | 2,541 |
| 9 | Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings John M. Boyce, Didier Pittet · American Journal of Infection Control | Dec 2002 | 2,126 |
| 10 | THE EFFICACY OF INFECTION SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMS IN PREVENTING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN US HOSPITALS Robert W. Haley, David H. Culver, John White et al. · American Journal of Epidemiology | Feb 1985 | 2,093 |
| 11 | Health Care–Associated Infections Eyal Zimlichman, Daniel Henderson, Orly Tamir et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine | 2 Sep 2013 | 1,879 |
| 12 | Aerosol Generating Procedures and Risk of Transmission of Acute Respiratory Infections to Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review Khai Trieu Tran, Karen Cimon, Melissa Severn et al. · PLoS ONE | 26 Apr 2012 | 1,874 |
| 13 | The Impact of Surgical-Site Infections in the 1990s: Attributable Mortality, Excess Length of Hospitalization, And Extra Costs Kathryn B Kirkland, Jane Briggs, Sharon L. Trivette et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Nov 1999 | 1,732 |
| 14 | 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 · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Dec 2002 | 1,669 |
| 15 | Metallic Copper as an Antimicrobial Surface Gregor Grass, Christopher Rensing, Marc Solioz · Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 30 Dec 2010 | 1,648 |
| 16 | epic3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England Heather P. Loveday, Jennie A. Wilson, Robert J. Pratt et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection | 10 Dec 2013 | 1,634 |
| 17 | Chlorhexidine–Alcohol versus Povidone–Iodine for Surgical-Site Antisepsis Rabih O. Darouiche, Matthew J. Wall, Kamal M.F. Itani et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 6 Jan 2010 | 1,493 |
| 18 | Biofilms and Device-Associated Infections Rodney M. Donlan · Emerging infectious diseases | Mar 2001 | 1,443 |
| 19 | CDC Definitions of Nosocomial Surgical Site Infections, 1992: A Modification of CDC Definitions of Surgical Wound Infections Teresa C Horan, Robert P. Gaynes, William J. Martone et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Oct 1992 | 1,404 |
| 20 | Environmental Contamination Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Possible Infection Control Implications John M. Boyce, Gail Potter-Bynoe, Claire Chenevert et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Sep 1997 | 1,289 |
| 21 | Changes in Prevalence of Health Care–Associated Infections in U.S. Hospitals Shelley S. Magill et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 31 Oct 2018 | 1,280 |
| 22 | A Case–Control Study of HIV Seroconversion in Health Care Workers after Percutaneous Exposure Denise M. Cardo, David H. Culver, Carol A. Ciesielski et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 20 Nov 1997 | 1,220 |
| 23 | Health care-associated infections – an overview Mainul Haque, Massimo Sartelli, Judy McKimm et al. · Infection and Drug Resistance | Nov 2018 | 1,219 |
| 24 | Infection Control — A Problem for Patient Safety John Patrick Burke · New England Journal of Medicine | 13 Feb 2003 | 1,175 |
| 25 | Systematic Review of Studies on Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines in Hospital Care Vicki Erasmus, Thea Daha, Hans Brug et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 20 Jan 2010 | 1,142 |
| 26 | Role of ventilation in airborne transmission of infectious agents in the built environment ? a multidisciplinary systematic review Yuguo Li, GM Leung, Julian Wei-Tze Tang et al. · Indoor Air | 25 Jan 2007 | 1,081 |
| 27 | Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals Julia S. Garner · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 1996 | 1,075 |
| 28 | Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention Benedetta Allegranzi, Didier Pittet · Journal of Hospital Infection | Sep 2009 | 1,068 |
| 29 | Nosocomial Infections in Combined Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Units in the United States Michael J. Richards, Jonathan R. Edwards, David H. Culver et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Aug 2000 | 1,036 |
| 30 | Clostridium difficile infection in Europe: a hospital-based survey Martijn P. Bauer, Daan W. Notermans, Birgit HB van Benthem et al. · The Lancet | 16 Nov 2010 | 1,028 |
| 31 | Compliance with Handwashing in a Teaching Hospital Didier Pittet, Philippe Mourouga, Thomas Perneger et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 19 Jan 1999 | 1,000 |
| 32 | Prevention of Intravascular Catheter–Related Infections Leonard A. Mermel · Annals of Internal Medicine | 7 Mar 2000 | 926 |
| 33 | Estimation of the global burden of disease attributable to contaminated sharps injuries among health‐care workers Annette Prüss‐Üstün, Elisabetta Rapiti, Yvan J. Hutin · American Journal of Industrial Medicine | 18 Nov 2005 | 889 |
| 34 | Effectiveness of precautions against droplets and contact in prevention of nosocomial transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) WH Seto, Dominic N.C. Tsang, Rwh Yung et al. · The Lancet | May 2003 | 884 |
| 35 | Effect of antibiotic stewardship on the incidence of infection and colonisation with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Clostridium difficile infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis David Baur, Beryl Primrose Gladstone, Francesco Robert Burkert et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 17 Jun 2017 | 867 |
| 36 | Prospective randomised trial of povidone-iodine, alcohol, and chlorhexidine for prevention of infection associated with central venous and arterial catheters D. G. Maki, C J Alvarado, Martin Ringer · The Lancet | Aug 1991 | 853 |
| 37 | Nosocomial infections: Epidemiology, prevention, control and surveillance Hassan Ahmed Khan, Fatima Kanwal Baig, Riffat Mehboob · Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine | 7 Jan 2017 | 842 |
| 38 | Effect of Hand Hygiene on Infectious Disease Risk in the Community Setting: A Meta-Analysis Allison E. Aiello, Rebecca M. Coulborn, Vanessa Pérez et al. · American Journal of Public Health | 12 Jun 2008 | 825 |
| 39 | Transmission of SARS and MERS coronaviruses and influenza virus in healthcare settings: the possible role of dry surface contamination Jonathan A. Otter, Curtis J. Donskey, Saber Yezli et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection | 8 Oct 2015 | 821 |
| 40 | ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene Hugo Sax, Benedetta Allegranzi, İlker Uçkay et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection | 28 Aug 2007 | 816 |
| 41 | A Comparison of Two Antimicrobial-Impregnated Central Venous Catheters Rabih O. Darouiche, ISSAM I. RAAD, Stephen O. Heard et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 7 Jan 1999 | 808 |
| 42 | The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi, John M. Boyce · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 9 Jun 2009 | 806 |
| 43 | Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi, Hugo Sax et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 26 Sep 2006 | 803 |
| 44 | Host and Pathogen Factors for Clostridium difficile Infection and Colonization Vivian G. Loo, Anne–Marie Bourgault, Louise Poirier et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 2 Nov 2011 | 801 |
| 45 | Targeted versus Universal Decolonization to Prevent ICU Infection Susan S. Huang, Edward Joel Septimus, KEN P. KLEINMAN et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 29 May 2013 | 799 |
| 46 | APIC guidelines for handwashing and hand antisepsis in health care settings Elaine Larson · American Journal of Infection Control | Aug 1995 | 776 |
| 47 | Role of hospital surfaces in the transmission of emerging health care-associated pathogens: Norovirus, Clostridium difficile, and Acinetobacter species David Jay Weber, William A. Rutala, Melissa B. Miller et al. · American Journal of Infection Control | Jun 2010 | 775 |
| 48 | Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care–associated infection Jeannie P. Cimiotti, Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane et al. · American Journal of Infection Control | 30 Jul 2012 | 771 |
| 49 | Epidemiologic Background of Hand Hygiene and Evaluation of the Most Important Agents for Scrubs and Rubs Günter Kampf, Axel Krämer · Clinical Microbiology Reviews | Oct 2004 | 769 |
| 50 | Prevention of Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection by Use of an Antiseptic-Impregnated Catheter Dennis G. Maki, Susan M. Stolz, Susan Wheeler et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 15 Aug 1997 | 760 |
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