Didier Pittet
Impact in
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology top 0.01%
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Infectious Diseases top 0.01%
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Papers in
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- Infection Control in Healthcare 205
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus 67
- Epidemiology 81
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment 29
- Co-authors
- John M. Boyce (17 shared papers)Benedetta Allegranzi (99 shared papers)Stephan Harbarth (82 shared papers)Hugo Sax (59 shared papers)Stéphane Hugonnet (30 shared papers)Philippe Eggimann (28 shared papers)Thomas Perneger (9 shared papers)Liam Donaldson (14 shared papers)
- Journals
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (84 papers)Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (61 papers)Journal of Hospital Infection (57 papers)The Lancet Infectious Diseases (26 papers)American Journal of Infection Control (25 papers)
- Partner nations
- SwitzerlandUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Didier Pittet
542 papers receiving 42.5k citations
Didier Pittet's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 216
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 3.8k
- Infectious Diseases 20.2k
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 4.8k
- General Dentistry 1.1k
- Emergency Medical Services 3.6k
Countries citing papers authored by Didier Pittet
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 1782 |
| 2 | Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 1661 |
| 3 | Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1659 |
| 4 | The Natural History of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 1471 |
| 5 | 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 Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1187 |
| 6 | Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 1114 |
| 7 | 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. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Association for Professionals in Infection Control/Infectious Diseases Society of America. Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 876 |
| 8 | Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection in Critically III Patients Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 770 |
| 9 | Compliance with Handwashing in a Teaching Hospital Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 752 |
| 10 | Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 705 |
| 11 | Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 692 |
| 12 | Diagnostic Value of Procalcitonin, Interleukin-6, and Interleukin-8 in Critically Ill Patients Admitted with Suspected Sepsis Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 685 |
| 13 | Patient Participation: Current Knowledge and Applicability to Patient Safety Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 603 |
| 14 | Candida Colonization and Subsequent Infections in Critically III Surgical Patients Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 598 |
| 15 | Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 572 |
| 16 | Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 554 |
| 17 | The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 551 |
| 18 | ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 551 |
| 19 | New WHO recommendations on preoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 545 |
| 20 | Hand Hygiene among Physicians: Performance, Beliefs, and Perceptions Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 518 |
About Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, having authored 576 papers that have together received 44.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Infection Control in Healthcare (205 papers), Nosocomial Infections in ICU (73 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (67 papers), Antibiotic Use and Resistance (64 papers), Infection Control and Ventilation (62 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (42 papers), Surgical site infection prevention (30 papers) and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (29 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (3.8k citations), Infectious Diseases (20.2k citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (4.8k citations), General Dentistry (1.1k citations) and Emergency Medical Services (3.6k citations). Didier Pittet has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include John M. Boyce, Benedetta Allegranzi, Stephan Harbarth, Hugo Sax, Stéphane Hugonnet, Philippe Eggimann, Thomas Perneger, Liam Donaldson, Sylvie Touveneau and Jorge Garbino. Their work appears in journals such as Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Journal of Hospital Infection, The Lancet Infectious Diseases and American Journal of Infection Control.
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