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Benedetta Allegranzi
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 183
Citations - 12456
Benedetta Allegranzi is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hygiene & Health care. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 165 publications receiving 9840 citations. Previous affiliations of Benedetta Allegranzi include University of Geneva & National Patient Safety Foundation.
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Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Benedetta Allegranzi,Sepideh Bagheri Nejad,Christophe Combescure,Wilco Graafmans,Homa Attar,Liam Donaldson,Didier Pittet,Didier Pittet +7 more
TL;DR: The epidemiology of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries is assessed and a need to improve surveillance and infection-control practices is indicated.
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Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention.
TL;DR: Factors influencing hand hygiene compliance, the impact of hand hygiene promotion on healthcare-associated pathogen cross-transmission and infection rates, and challenging issues related to the universal adoption of alcohol-based hand rub as a critical system change are reviewed.
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'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene.
Hugo Sax,Benedetta Allegranzi,Ilker Uçkay,Elaine Larson,Elaine Larson,J. Boyce,J. Boyce,Didier Pittet,Didier Pittet +8 more
TL;DR: 'My five moments for hand hygiene' describes the fundamental reference points for healthcare workers in a time-space framework and designates the moments when hand hygiene is required to effectively interrupt microbial transmission during the care sequence and provides a solid basis to understand, teach, monitor and report hand hygiene practices.
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The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations
TL;DR: 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 Lives: Clean Your Hands initiative as mentioned in this paper.
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New WHO recommendations on preoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective.
Benedetta Allegranzi,Peter Bischoff,Stijn W. de Jonge,N Zeynep Kubilay,Bassim Zayed,Stacey M Gomes,Mohamed Abbas,Jasper J. Atema,Sarah L. Gans,Miranda van Rijen,Marja A. Boermeester,Matthias Egger,Jan Kluytmans,Didier Pittet,Joseph S. Solomkin +14 more
TL;DR: 13 recommendations on preoperative preventive measures for surgical site infections are presented, taking into account the balance between benefits and harms, the evidence quality, cost and resource use implications, and patient values and preferences.