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2023

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Medicine

D-Index
137
Citations
86964
World Ranking
1881
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26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2009 - European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award

Overview

Didier Pittet is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a substantial focus on Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Modeling and Simulation, Clinical Psychology, and General Dentistry.

Their research prominently covers topics related to infection control in healthcare, infection control and ventilation, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, dental research and COVID-19, antibiotic use and resistance, and COVID-19 and healthcare impacts.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • Journal of Hospital Infection
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • American Journal of Infection Control
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Didier Pittet has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, most notably:

  • Benedetta Allegranzi
  • Alexandra Peters
  • Ermira Tartari
  • Laurent Kaiser
  • Silvia Stringhini

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in Geneva, Switzerland (SEROCoV-POP): a population-based study" (2020) published in The Lancet
  • "Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers" (2021) published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • "Hand hygiene in health care: 20 years of ongoing advances and perspectives" (2021) published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Serology-informed estimates of SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality risk in Geneva, Switzerland" (2020) published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Hand hygiene and the novel coronavirus pandemic: the role of healthcare workers" (2020) published in Journal of Hospital Infection

Didier Pittet received the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene

    Didier Pittet;Stéphane Hugonnet;Stephan Harbarth;Philippe Mourouga

  • Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force.

    John M. Boyce;Didier Pittet

  • The Natural History of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS): A Prospective Study

    M. S. Rangel-Frausto;Didier Pittet;M. Costigan;T. Hwang

  • Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Benedetta Allegranzi;Sepideh Bagheri Nejad;Christophe Combescure;Wilco Graafmans

  • Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality.

    Didier Pittet;Debra Tarara;Richard P. Wenzel

  • 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

    John M. Boyce;Didier Pittet

  • 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.

    John M Boyce;Didier Pittet;Hicpac

  • Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program.

    Didier Pittet;Philippe Mourouga;Thomas V. Perneger

  • DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF PROCALCITONIN, INTERLEUKIN-6, AND INTERLEUKIN-8 IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS ADMITTED WITH SUSPECTED SEPSIS

    Stephan Harbarth;Katarina Holeckova;Céline Froidevaux;Didier Pittet

  • Role of hand hygiene in healthcare-associated infection prevention.

    Benedetta Allegranzi;Didier Pittet;Didier Pittet

  • EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CANDIDA SPECIES INFECTIONS IN CRITICALLY ILL NON-IMMUNOSUPPRESSED PATIENTS

    Philippe Eggimann;Jorge Garbino;Didier Pittet

  • Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in Geneva, Switzerland (SEROCoV-POP): a population-based study.

    Silvia Stringhini;Silvia Stringhini;Silvia Stringhini;Ania Wisniak;Giovanni Piumatti;Giovanni Piumatti;Andrew S Azman;Andrew S Azman

  • Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices

    Didier Pittet;Didier Pittet;Benedetta Allegranzi;Hugo Sax;Hugo Sax;Sasi Dharan;Sasi Dharan

  • Patient Participation: Current Knowledge and Applicability to Patient Safety

    Yves Longtin;Hugo Sax;Lucian L. Leape;Lucian L. Leape;Susan E. Sheridan;Susan E. Sheridan

  • Candida colonization and subsequent infections in critically ill surgical patients.

    Didier Pittet;Michel Monod;Peter M. Suter;Edgar Frenk

  • Hand Hygiene among Physicians: Performance, Beliefs, and Perceptions

    Didier Pittet;Anne Simon;Stéphane Hugonnet;Carmen Lúcia Pessoa-Silva

  • 'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene.

    Hugo Sax;Benedetta Allegranzi;Ilker Uckay;E. Larson;E. Larson

  • The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations

    Didier Pittet;Benedetta Allegranzi;John Boyce

  • Improving adherence to hand hygiene practice: a multidisciplinary approach.

    Didier Pittet

  • Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection in Critically Ill Adults: Excess Length of Stay, Extra Costs, and Attributable Mortality

    Didier Pittet;Debra Tarara;Richard P. Wenzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphan Juergen Harbarth
Stéphan Juergen Harbarth University of Geneva
Jacques Schrenzel
Jacques Schrenzel University of Geneva
Patrice Francois
Patrice Francois University of Geneva
Daniel Pablo Lew
Daniel Pablo Lew University of Geneva
Laurent Kaiser
Laurent Kaiser Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Andreas Voss
Andreas Voss Heidelberg University
Andreas F. Widmer
Andreas F. Widmer University Hospital of Basel
Richard P. Wenzel
Richard P. Wenzel Virginia Commonwealth University
Petra Gastmeier
Petra Gastmeier Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Elaine Larson
Elaine Larson Columbia University

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