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all intensive care unit-acquired infections. Similarly, interventions to reduce urinary tract infections were successfully applied. Pittet's team also proved the cost-effectiveness of their interventions and long-term sustainability. Pittet's vision is that to advance infection prevention and control strategies, it is essential to seek insight and innovation through other specialty fields, such as anthropology or sociology, or even engineering, computer science, mathematical modelling, and systems thinking.

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compliance. The challenge was to facilitate hand hygiene for staff and to find an innovative idea to do so. Under Pittet's leadership, the team investigated concepts from the social sciences to help understand the determinants driving healthcare worker behaviour, which led to the creation of a multimodal strategy based on education, recognition of opportunities for hand hygiene, and feedback on performance where the key component was the introduction of alcohol-based hand rub at the point of care to replace

603:) Guidelines for Hand Hygiene, Pittet proposed that WHO Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health Care be developed under his leadership in consultation with other international experts. The final version of the Guidelines was published in 2009. In 2008, the infection control programme of the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine was designated as the first WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety (Infection Control and Improving Practices) in Europe. 607:

of the world population. Forty-two countries/networks have already started hand hygiene initiatives using the proposed strategy. Alcohol-based hand rub is promoted actively as the new standard of care, including in resource-poor countries. Pittet's team developed the "Five Moments" concept to explain to healthcare workers the critical moments when hand hygiene must be carried out and this model is currently used worldwide.

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The "Geneva Hand Hygiene Model" was used as the basis for the recommended implementation strategy for the global promotion of hand hygiene. As of December 2011, "Clean Care is Safer Care" has been endorsed by ministers of health in over 120 countries worldwide―representing a coverage of more than 90%

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in 2000 and the strategy became known in as "The Geneva Hand Hygiene Model". During 1995–1997, Pittet had applied the same multimodal concept to a prevention strategy targeted at vascular access care and showed that it can decrease these infections and substantially impact on the overall incidence of

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Pittet, D; Allegranzi, B; Sax, H; Chraiti, MN; Griffiths, W; Richet, H; World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Challenge Alcohol-Based Handrub Task Force (2007). "Double-blind, randomized, crossover trial of 3 hand rub formulations: Fast-track evaluation of tolerability and acceptability".

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Pittet is Visiting Professor, Division of Investigative Science and School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; Honorary Professor, 1st Medical School of the Fu, Shanghai, China; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,

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Boyce, JM; Pittet, D; Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee; HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force (2002). "Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA

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Faculty of Medicine, he graduated as M.D. in 1983 from the same institution, and received a master's degree (MS) in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, US, in 1992. Pittet began his career as an infectious diseases expert with a special interest in the intensive

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Initial observation studies in Geneva by Pittet's team showed a low compliance with basic hand hygiene practices and a lack of awareness by healthcare workers that the main cause of cross-transmission of microorganisms is by hands. Time constraint was identified as the major determinant for poor

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In 2004, Pittet was approached by the WHO World Alliance of Patient Safety to lead the First Global Patient Safety Challenge under the banner "Clean Care is Safer Care". The mandate was to galvanise global commitment to tackle health-care associated infection, which had been identified as a

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Uçkay, I; Lübbeke, A; Harbarth, S; Emonet, S; Tovmirzaeva, L; Agostinho, A; Longtin, Y; Peter, R; et al. (2012). "Low risk despite high endemicity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections following elective total joint arthroplasty: A 12-year experience".

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Pittet, D; Allegranzi, B; Sax, H; Dharan, S; Pessoa-Silva, CL; Donaldson, L; Boyce, JM; Who Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Alliance for Patient Safety (2006). "Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices".

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Allegranzi, B; Sax, H; Bengaly, L; Richet, H; Minta, DK; Chraiti, MN; Sokona, FM; Gayet-Ageron, A; et al. (2010). "Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral hospital in Mali, Africa".

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care setting and device-associated and yeast infections, but this rapidly expanded to include research in overall hospital epidemiology and infection prevention and control. In 1992, he was appointed as Director of the Infection Control Programme at the

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Harbarth, S; Holeckova, K; Froidevaux, C; Pittet, D; Ricou, B; Grau, GE; Vadas, L; Pugin, J; Geneva Sepsis, Network (2001). "Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8 in critically ill patients admitted with suspected sepsis".

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Longtin, Y; Troillet, N; Touveneau, S; Boillat, N; Rimensberger, P; Dharan, S; Gervaix, A; Pittet, D; Harbarth, S (2010). "Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in a pediatric intensive care unit linked to a humanitarian organization residential center".

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Pittet, D; Rangel-Frausto, S; Li, N; Tarara, D; Costigan, M; Rempe, L; Jebson, P; Wenzel, RP (1995). "Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock: Incidence, morbidities and outcomes in surgical ICU patients".

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Pittet, D.; Panesar, S.S.; Wilson, K.; Longtin, Y.; Morris, T.; Allan, V.; Storr, J.; Cleary, K.; Donaldson, L. (2011). "Involving the patient to ask about hospital hand hygiene: A National Patient Safety Agency feasibility study".

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In the 2007 New Year Honours List, Didier Pittet was awarded the Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of his services related to the prevention of healthcare-associated infections in the UK.

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Pittet, Didier; Hugonnet, Stéphane; Harbarth, Stephan; Mourouga, Philippe; Sauvan, Valérie; Touveneau, Sylvie; Perneger, Thomas V (2000). "Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene".

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Allegranzi, B; Bagheri Nejad, S; Combescure, C; Graafmans, W; Attar, H; Donaldson, L; Pittet, D (2011). "Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis".

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Pessoa-Silva, C. L.; Hugonnet, S.; Pfister, R.; Touveneau, S.; Dharan, S.; Posfay-Barbe, K.; Pittet, D. (2007). "Reduction of Health Care Associated Infection Risk in Neonates by Successful Hand Hygiene Promotion".

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Whitby, M.; Pessoa-Silva, C.L.; McLaws, M.-L.; Allegranzi, B.; Sax, H.; Larson, E.; Seto, W.H.; Donaldson, L.; Pittet, D. (2007). "Behavioural considerations for hand hygiene practices: The basic building blocks".

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Harbarth, S; Garbino, J; Pugin, J; Romand, JA; Lew, D; Pittet, D (2003). "Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy and its effect on survival in a clinical trial of immunomodulating therapy for severe sepsis".

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Kollef, M; Pittet, D; Sánchez García, M; Chastre, J; Fagon, JY; Bonten, M; Hyzy, R; Fleming, TR; et al. (2006). "A randomized double-blind trial of iseganan in prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia".

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Eggimann, P; Harbarth, S; Constantin, MN; Touveneau, S; Chevrolet, JC; Pittet, D (2000). "Impact of a prevention strategy targeted at vascular-access care on incidence of infections acquired in intensive care".

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Pittet, D; Hugonnet, S; Harbarth, S; Mourouga, P; Sauvan, V; Touveneau, S; Perneger, TV (2000). "Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Infection Control Programme".

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Longtin, Yves; Sax, Hugo; Allegranzi, Benedetta; Hugonnet, Stéphane; Pittet, Didier (2009). "Patients' Beliefs and Perceptions of Their Participation to Increase Healthcare Worker Compliance with Hand Hygiene".

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Allegranzi, B; Memish, ZA; Donaldson, L; Pittet, D; World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Challenge Task Force on Religious Cultural Aspects of Hand Hygiene; World Alliance for Patient Safety (2009).

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significant area of risk for patients in all United Nations Member States. Hand hygiene was to be the cornerstone of the Challenge. As co-author of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (

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Hugonnet, Stéphane; Harbarth, Stephan; Ferrière, Karin; Ricou, Bara; Suter, Peter; Pittet, Didier (2003). "Bacteremic sepsis in intensive care: Temporal trends in incidence, organ dysfunction, and prognosis".

4591:"Prevention of severe Candida infections in nonneutropenic, high-risk, critically ill patients: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients treated by selective digestive decontamination" 5146:

Pessoa-Silva, CL; Hugonnet, S; Pfister, R; Touveneau, S; Dharan, S; Posfay-Barbe, K; Pittet, D (2007). "Reduction of health care associated infection risk in neonates by successful hand hygiene promotion".

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Zingg, W.; Sax, H.; Inan, C.; Cartier, V.; Diby, M.; Clergue, F.; Pittet, D.; Walder, B. (2009). "Hospital-wide surveillance of catheter-related bloodstream infection: From the expected to the unexpected".

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Sax, H.; Allegranzi, B.; Uçkay, I.; Larson, E.; Boyce, J.; Pittet, D. (2007). "'My five moments for hand hygiene': A user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene".

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Between 1991 and 2011, Pittet and his collaborators made significant contributions to different research fields. Five key references have been selected for each of the following main research topics:

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Pittet, D; Monod, M; Filthuth, I; Frenk, E; Suter, PM; Auckenthaler, R (1991). "Contour-clamped homogeneous electric field gel electrophoresis as a powerful epidemiologic tool in yeast infections".

4895:"Impact of Combined Low-Level Mupirocin and Genotypic Chlorhexidine Resistance on Persistent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriage After Decolonization Therapy: A Case-control Study" 6302:

Sax, H; Allegranzi, B; Uçkay, I; Larson, E; Boyce, J; Pittet, D (2007). "'My five moments for hand hygiene': A user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene".

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Sax, H; Allegranzi, B; Uçkay, I; Larson, E; Boyce, J; Pittet, D (2007). "'My five moments for hand hygiene': A user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene".

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Rangel-Frausto, M. S.; Pittet, D.; Costigan, M.; Hwang, T.; Davis, C. S.; Wenzel, R. P. (1995). "The Natural History of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) A Prospective Study".

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Haustein, T; Gastmeier, P; Holmes, A; Lucet, JC; Shannon, RP; Pittet, D; Harbarth, S (2011). "Use of benchmarking and public reporting for infection control in four high-income countries".

5026:"Evaluation of rapid screening and pre-emptive contact isolation for detecting and controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in critical care: An interventional cohort study" 4447:

Pittet, D; Harbarth, S; Suter, PM; Reinhart, K; Leighton, A; Barker, C; MacDonald, F; Abraham, E (1999). "Impact of immunomodulating therapy on morbidity in patients with severe sepsis".

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Carlet, J; Collignon, P; Goldmann, D; Goossens, H; Gyssens, IC; Harbarth, S; Jarlier, V; Levy, SB; et al. (2011). "Society's failure to protect a precious resource: Antibiotics".

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Harbarth, S; Sax, H; Fankhauser-Rodriguez, C; Schrenzel, J; Agostinho, A; Pittet, D (2006). "Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission".

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Baratti-Mayer, D; Pittet, B; Montandon, D; Bolivar, I; Bornand, JE; Hugonnet, S; Jaquinet, A; Schrenzel, J; et al. (2003). "Noma: An "infectious" disease of unknown aetiology".

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Eggimann, P; Harbarth, S; Ricou, B; Hugonnet, S; Ferriere, K; Suter, P; Pittet, D (2003). "Acute respiratory distress syndrome after bacteremic sepsis does not increase mortality".

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The first multimodal intervention ran from 1995 to 2000 at the University of Geneva Hospitals with a spectacular decrease of almost 50% in hospital-associated infections and

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Uçkay, I; Harbarth, S; Ferry, T; Lübbeke, A; Emonet, S; Hoffmeyer, P; Pittet, D (2011). "Meticillin resistance in orthopaedic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections".

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Pittet, D.; Tarara, D.; Wenzel, R. P. (1994). "Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection in Critically III Patients: Excess Length of Stay, Extra Costs, and Attributable Mortality".

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Longtin, Y; Akakpo, C; Rutschmann, OT; Pittet, D; Sax, H (2009). "Evaluation of patients' mask use after the implementation of cough etiquette in the emergency department".

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Harbarth, Stephan; Masuet-Aumatell, Cristina; Schrenzel, Jacques; Francois, Patrice; Akakpo, Christophe; Renzi, Gesuele; Pugin, Jerome; Ricou, Bara; Pittet, Didier (2006).

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Pittet, D; Thiévent, B; Wenzel, RP; Li, N; Auckenthaler, R; Suter, PM (1996). "Bedside prediction of mortality from bacteremic sepsis. A dynamic analysis of ICU patients".

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Barrera, L; Zingg, W; Mendez, F; Pittet, D (2011). "Effectiveness of a hand hygiene promotion strategy using alcohol-based handrub in 6 intensive care units in Colombia".

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Hand Hygiene Task Force. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Association for Professionals in Infection Control/Infectious Diseases Society of America".

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Hugonnet, S; Eggimann, P; Sax, H; Touveneau, S; Chevrolet, JC; Pittet, D (2002). "Intensive care unit-acquired infections: Is postdischarge surveillance useful?".

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Rotter, M; Sattar, S; Dharan, S; Allegranzi, B; Mathai, E; Pittet, D (2009). "Methods to evaluate the microbicidal activities of hand-rub and hand-wash agents".

1610:"Cluster-randomized, crossover trial of the efficacy of plain soap and water versus alcohol-based rub for surgical hand preparation in a rural hospital in Kenya" 6448: 483: 6570: 323: 2232:

Pittet, D; Simon, A; Hugonnet, S; Pessoa-Silva, CL; Sauvan, V; Perneger, TV (2004). "Hand hygiene among physicians: Performance, beliefs, and perceptions".

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Pittet, D; Simon, A; Hugonnet, S; Pessoa-Silva, CL; Sauvan, V; Perneger, TV (2004). "Hand hygiene among physicians: Performance, beliefs, and perceptions".

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Eggimann, P; Hugonnet, S; Sax, H; Harbarth, S; Chevrolet, JC; Pittet, D (2005). "Long-term reduction of vascular access-associated bloodstream infection".

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Eggimann, P; Hugonnet, S; Sax, H; Harbarth, S; Chevrolet, JC; Pittet, D (2005). "Long-term reduction of vascular access-associated bloodstream infection".

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Pittet is author/co-author of approximately 500 publications, including 300 peer-reviewed publications and 50 chapters in authoritative medical textbooks.

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Baratti-Mayer, D; Pittet, B; Montandon, D (2004). "GESNOMA (Geneva Study Group on Noma): State-of-the-art medical research for humanitarian purposes".

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Ahmed, QA; Memish, ZA; Allegranzi, B; Pittet, D; WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge (2006). "Muslim health-care workers and alcohol-based handrubs".

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Ahmed, QA; Memish, ZA; Allegranzi, B; Pittet, D; WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge (2006). "Muslim health-care workers and alcohol-based handrubs".

2001:"Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? Reliability of the international health regulations notification assessment process" 1293: 371:

External Lead, World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care" and African Partnerships for Patient Safety

4414:"The Dynamics of Disease Progression in Sepsis: Markov Modeling Describing the Natural History and the Likely Impact of Effective Antisepsis Agents" 3551:

Pittet, D; Wenzel, RP (1995). "Nosocomial bloodstream infections. Secular trends in rates, mortality, and contribution to total hospital deaths".

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Pittet, D; Eggimann, P; Rubinovitch, B (2001). "Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia by oral decontamination: Just another SDD study?".

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Stewardson, A; Allegranzi, B; Sax, H; Kilpatrick, C; Pittet, D (2011). "Back to the future: Rising to the Semmelweis challenge in hand hygiene".

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Pittet, D; Zingg, W (2010). "Reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia: When process control allows outcome improvement and even benchmarking".

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Pittet, Didier; Bonten, Marc JM (2000). "Towards invasive diagnostic techniques as standard management of ventilator-associated pneumonia".

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Sax, H; Allegranzi, B; Chraïti, MN; Boyce, J; Larson, E; Pittet, D (2009). "The World Health Organization hand hygiene observation method".

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Harbarth, S.; Fankhauser, C.; Schrenzel, J.; Christenson, J.; Gervaz, P.; Bandiera-Clerc, C.; Renzi, G.; Vernaz, N.; et al. (2008).

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Eggimann, P; Garbino, J; Pittet, D (2003). "Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients".

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Widmer, AF; Rotter, M; Voss, A; Nthumba, P; Allegranzi, B; Boyce, J; Pittet, D (2010). "Surgical hand preparation: State-of-the-art".

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Huyghe, A; Francois, P; Charbonnier, Y; Tangomo-Bento, M; Bonetti, EJ; Paster, BJ; Bolivar, I; Baratti-Mayer, D; et al. (2008).

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is the Challenge's annual campaign with almost 15,000 hospitals registered from more than 150 countries at the end of December 2011.

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Boyce, J; Cookson, B; Christiansen, K; Hori, S; Vuopiovarkila, J; Kocagoz, S; Oztop, A; Vandenbrouckegrauls, C; et al. (2005).

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Harbarth, S; Fankhauser, C; Schrenzel, J; Christenson, J; Gervaz, P; Bandiera-Clerc, C; Renzi, G; Vernaz, N; et al. (2008).

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Cookson, B; Mathai, E; Allegranzi, B; Pessoa-Silva, CL; Bagheri Nejad, S; Schneider, A; Tschopp, C; Wendt, C; Pittet, D (2009).

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Pittet, D; Mourouga, P; Perneger, TV (1999). "Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program".

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Pittet, D; Mourouga, P; Perneger, TV (1999). "Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program".

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Pittet, D; Mourouga, P; Perneger, TV (1999). "Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program".

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Perencevich, E. N.; Pittet, D. (2009). "Preventing Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections: Thinking Outside the Checklist".

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Hugonnet, Stephane; Eggimann, Philippe; Borst, Francois; Maricot, Patrice; Chevrolet, Jean-Claude; Pittet, Didier (2004).

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Harbarth, S; François, P; Shrenzel, J; Fankhauser-Rodriguez, C; Hugonnet, S; Koessler, T; Huyghe, A; Pittet, D (2005).

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Widmer, A. F.; Pittet, D. (1992). "Optimal Duration of Therapy for Catheter-Related Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia".

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Hugonnet, S; Chevrolet, JC; Pittet, D (2007). "The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients".

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Pittet, Didier; Boyce, John M (2003). "Revolutionising hand hygiene in health-care settings: Guidelines revisited".

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Lee, A. S.; Macedo-Vinas, M.; Francois, P.; Renzi, G.; Schrenzel, J.; Vernaz, N.; Pittet, D.; Harbarth, S. (2011).

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Eggimann, P; Garbino, J; Pittet, D (2003). "Management of Candida species infections in critically ill patients".

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Uçkay, I; Harbarth, S; Peter, R; Lew, D; Hoffmeyer, P; Pittet, D (2010). "Preventing surgical site infections".

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Pittet, D; Allegranzi, B; Sax, H; Bertinato, L; Concia, E; Cookson, B; Fabry, J; Richet, H; et al. (2005).

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Pittet, D; Sax, H; Hugonnet, S; Harbarth, S (2004). "Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion".

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Pittet, D; Sax, H; Hugonnet, S; Harbarth, S (2004). "Cost implications of successful hand hygiene promotion".

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secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland. Following a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Community Health at the

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Rangel-Frausto, M. Sigfrido; Pittet, Didier; Hwang, Taekyu; Woolson, Robert F.; Wenzel, Richard P. (1998).

1958:"Considerations for a WHO European strategy on health-care-associated infection, surveillance, and control" 6585: 2241: 1002: 229: 109: 5984: 507: 6472: 4056: 3207:

Longtin, Yves; Sax, Hugo; Leape, Lucian L.; Sheridan, Susan E.; Donaldson, Liam; Pittet, Didier (2010).

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Zingg, Walter; Posfay-Barbe, Klara M.; Pfister, Riccardo E.; Touveneau, Sylvie; Pittet, Didier (2011).

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Pessoa-Silva, CL; Dharan, S; Hugonnet, S; Touveneau, S; Posfay-Barbe, K; Pfister, R; Pittet, D (2004).

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Pittet, Didier; Boyce, John M (2001). "Hand hygiene and patient care: Pursuing the Semmelweis legacy".

5290:"Individualized Catheter Surveillance among Neonates: A Prospective, 8-Year, Single-Center Experience" 4850:

De Angelis, G; Francois, P; Lee, A; Schrenzel, J; Renzi, G; Girard, M; Pittet, D; Harbarth, S (2011).

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Pittet, B; Jaquinet, A; Montandon, D (2001). "Clinical experience in the treatment of noma sequelae".

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Nthumba, PM; Stepita-Poenaru, E; Poenaru, D; Bird, P; Allegranzi, B; Pittet, D; Harbarth, S (2010).

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Nthumba, PM; Stepita-Poenaru, E; Poenaru, D; Bird, P; Allegranzi, B; Pittet, D; Harbarth, S (2010).

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Kramer, A; Rudolph, P; Kampf, G; Pittet, D (2002). "Limited efficacy of alcohol-based hand gels".

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1999: 1st Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis Research Prize (accomplishments in the field of hand hygiene)

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Allegranzi, B; Pittet, D (2008). "Preventing infections acquired during health-care delivery".

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Zingg, W; Posfay-Barbe, KM; Pittet, D (2008). "Healthcare-associated infections in neonates".

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Pittet, Didier; Kramer, Axel (2002). "Alcohol-based hand gels and hand hygiene in hospitals".

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