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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:15 (14 May 2013)Implementation of the world health organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in critical care units
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Reviewer acknowledgement
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:4 (12 April 2013)Reviewer acknowledgement 2012
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Research
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:14 (8 April 2013)Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of human and piglet
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:13 (4 April 2013)Attributable costs of ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) acquired on intensive care units: a retrospectively matched cohort study
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Short report
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:12 (4 April 2013)Difficult-to-detect carbapenem-resistant IMP13-producing
P. aeruginosa : experience feedback concerning a cluster of urinary tract infections at a surgical clinic in France -
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:11 (4 April 2013)The impact of staffing on central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections in preterm neonates – results of nation-wide cohort study in Germany
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Short report
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:10 (3 April 2013)Variations in catheter-related bloodstream infections rates based on local practices
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Research
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:9 (26 March 2013)Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:8 (21 March 2013)Outbreak of colonizations by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing
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Commentary
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:7 (2 March 2013)“The Chennai declaration” - Indian doctors’ fight against antimicrobial resistance
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5 MAY 2013 – A continued focus on monitoring and feedback and let the patient voice be heard !
WHO Clean Care is Safer Care programme is again promoting its global annual hand hygiene campaign on 5 May 2013. Improve and sustain hand hygiene and help save lives by reducing health care-associated infection while working in your health-care facility,
Hand hygiene monitoring and feedback and encouraging patient participation in hand hygiene promotion are the twin goals for
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2013
Plan to use the WHO Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework and other hand hygiene tools to help you: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/en/index.html
Register your commitment and take action NOW
Thank you from Professor Didier Pittet and Dr Benedetta Allegranzi
on behalf of WHO Clean Care is Safer Care
A WHO Patient Safety Initiative
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is a global forum for reports encompassing all aspects of resistance development and prevention of health-care associated infections in all health-care settings.
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Andreas Voss - Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital and Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands
Deputy Editors
Didier Pittet - University of Geneva Hospitals Switzerland
Jan A Kluytmans - Amphia Hospital, Breda & Free University Medical Centre, Netherlands
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