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2019-11-14ZeitschriftenartikelApplication of a new methodology and R package reveals a high burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in Germany compared to the average in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2011 to 2012 Zacher, Benedikt; Haller, Sebastian; Willrich, Niklas; Walter, Jan; Abu Sin, Muna; Cassini, Alessandro; Plachouras, Diamantis; Suetens, Carl; Behnke, Michael; Gastmeier, Petra; Wieler, Lothar H.; Eckmanns, TimBackground Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose a major challenge to health systems. Burden of disease estimations in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are useful for comparing and ranking HAIs. Aim To ...
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2018-11-05ZeitschriftenartikelAttributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis Cassini, Alessandro; Diaz Högberg, Liselotte; Plachouras, Diamantis; Quattrocchi, Annalisa; Hoxha, Ana; Skov Simonsen, Gunnar; Colomb-Cotinat, Mélanie; Kretzschmar, Mirjam E.; Devleesschauwer, Brecht; Cecchini, Michele; Ait Ouakrim, Driss; Cravo Oliveira, Tiago; Struelens, Marc J.; Suetens, Carl; Monnet, Dominique L.; Burden of AMR Collaborative GroupBackground Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening modern health care. However, estimating their incidence, complications, and attributable mortality is challenging. We aimed to estimate the burden ...
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2016-10-18ZeitschriftenartikelBurden of Six Healthcare-Associated Infections on European Population Health: Estimating Incidence-Based Disability-Adjusted Life Years through a Population Prevalence-Based Modelling Study Cassini, Alessandro; Plachouras, Diamantis; Eckmanns, Tim; Sin, Muna Abu; Blank, Hans-Peter; Ducomble, Tanja; Haller, Sebastian; Harder, Thomas; Klingeberg, Anja; Sixtensson, Madlen; Velasco, Edward; Weiß, Bettina; Kramarz, Piotr; Monnet, Dominique L.; Kretzschmar, Mirjam E.; Suetens, CarlBackground: Estimating the burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) compared to other communicable diseases is an ongoing challenge given the need for good quality data on the incidence of these infections and ...
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2020-06-26ZeitschriftenartikelEpidemiology and burden of sepsis acquired in hospitals and intensive care units: a systematic review and meta-analysis Markwart, Robby; Saito, Hiroki; Harder, Thomas; Tomczyk, Sara; Cassini, Alessandro; Fleischmann-Struzek, Carolin; Reichert, Felix; Eckmanns, Tim; Allegranzi, BenedettaPurpose Sepsis is recognized as a global public health problem, but the proportion due to hospital-acquired infections remains unclear. We aimed to summarize the epidemiological evidence related to the burden of ...
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2020-12-15ZeitschriftenartikelGlobal incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis Fleischmann, Carolin; Reichert, Felix; Cassini, Alessandro; Horner, Rosa; Harder, Thomas; Markwart, Robby; Tröndle, Marc; Savova, Yoanna; Kissoon, Niranjan; Schlattmann, Peter; Reinhart, Konrad; Allegranzi, Benedetta; Eckmanns, TimBackground Neonates are at major risk of sepsis, but data on neonatal sepsis incidence are scarce. We aimed to assess the incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis worldwide. Methods We performed a systematic review ...
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2022-02-23ZeitschriftenartikelImplementation of hand hygiene in health-care facilities: results from the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework global survey 2019 de Kraker, Marlieke E. A.; Tartari, Ermira; Tomczyk, Sara; Twyman, Anthony; Francioli, Laurent C.; Cassini, Alessandro; Allegranzi, Benedetta; Pittet, DidierBackground Hand hygiene is at the core of effective infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. 10 years after the development of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy, we aimed to ascertain the level ...
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2022-02-21ZeitschriftenartikelThe first WHO global survey on infection prevention and control in health-care facilities Tomczyk, Sara; Twyman, Anthony; de Kraker, Marlieke E A; Rehse, Ana Paula Coutinho; Tartari, Ermira; Toledo, João Paulo; Cassini, Alessandro; Pittet, Didier; Allegranzi, BenedettaBackground: WHO core components for infection prevention and control (IPC) are important building blocks for effective IPC programmes. To our knowledge, we did the first WHO global survey to assess implementation of these ...