Markus Dettenkofer

TL;DR: A systematic review of studies identified crucial elements for the organisation of effective infection-prevention programmes in hospitals and key components for implementation of monitoring to reduce health-care-associated infections and improve patients' safety.

TL;DR: Data suggest that outcome of S. aureus bacteremia may be improved by an expert consultation service, and factors potentially associated with in-hospital mortality in multivariate analysis.

TL;DR: Disinfectants may pose a danger to staff, patients, and the environment and require special safety precautions, however, targeted disinfection of certain environmental surfaces is in certain instances an established component of hospital infection control.

TL;DR: Ten years ago, in January 1997, data collection for the German national nosocomial infection surveillance system was established and KISS was able to demonstrate a beneficial effect from ongoing surveillance activities and appropriate feedback to the users in combination with reference data for ventilator associated pneumonia, primary bloodstream infections and surgical site infections.

TL;DR: Five years after the introduction of KISS many hospitals have introduced continuous surveillance activities whereby the various definitions and methods have attained wide acceptance and has lead to much better understanding and cooperation between clinicians and infection control personnel in preventing nosocomial infections.