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  • 2018 - Walsh McDermott Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1986 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Elaine Larson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The research topics that Elaine Larson has focused on include:

  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Infection Control in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance

Elaine Larson has published numerous papers, with recent works covering various aspects of healthcare and infection control. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Training for interdisciplinary health research defining the required competencies," 2020, PubMed
  • "Observation of Hand Hygiene Practices in Home Health Care," 2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • "Association of Infection-Related Hospitalization With Cognitive Impairment Among Nursing Home Residents," 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • "Reflections from the "Forgotten Front Line": A qualitative study of factors affecting wellbeing among long-term care workers in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, Geriatric Nursing
  • "Evaluation of the joint nurse scientist role across academia and practice," 2020, Nursing Outlook

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers such as Jianfang Liu, Bevin Cohen, Jiyoun Song, Philip Zachariah, and David P. Calfee. These colleagues have co-authored several publications with them.

Their research has appeared in various publication venues, with notable recurrent contributions to:

  • American Journal of Infection Control
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Nursing Outlook
  • Geriatric Nursing
  • JAMA Network Open

Elaine Larson has been recognized with awards that include the Walsh McDermott Medal from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2018 and has been a member of the NAM since 1986.

Best Publications

  • Central challenges facing the national clinical research enterprise.

    Nancy S. Sung;William F. Crowley;Myron Genel;Patricia Salber

  • A review of antibiotic use in food animals: perspective, policy, and potential.

    Timothy F. Landers;Bevin Cohen;Thomas E. Wittum;Elaine L. Larson

  • APIC guidelines for handwashing and hand antisepsis in health care settings

    Elaine L. Larson

  • Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections.

    Naomi P. O'Grady;Mary Alexander;E. Patchen Dellinger;Julie L. Gerberding

  • '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

  • Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance: Recommendations of the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)

    Walter J. Hierholzer;Julia S. Garner;Audrey B. Adams;Donald E. Craven

  • Effect of hand hygiene on infectious disease risk in the community setting: a meta-analysis

    Allison E. Aiello;Rebecca M. Coulborn;Vanessa Perez;Elaine L. Larson

  • Dissemination of health information through social networks: Twitter and antibiotics

    Daniel Scanfeld;Vanessa Scanfeld;Elaine L. Larson

  • Defining interdisciplinary research: conclusions from a critical review of the literature.

    Sally W. Aboelela;Elaine Larson;Suzanne Bakken;Olveen Carrasquillo

  • A U.S. Population-Based Survey of Staphylococcus aureus Colonization

    Philip L. Graham;Susan X. Lin;Elaine L. Larson

  • Understanding adherence to hand hygiene recommendations: The theory of planned behavior

    Carol A. O'Boyle;Susan J. Henly;Elaine Larson

  • A Causal Link Between Handwashing and Risk of Infection? Examination of the Evidence

    Elaine Larson

  • An organizational climate intervention associated with increased handwashing and decreased nosocomial infections.

    Elaine L. Larson;Eve Early;Patricia Cloonan;Sandra Sugrue

  • Measurement of compliance with hand hygiene

    J.P. Haas;E.L. Larson

  • Nurse working conditions and patient safety outcomes

    Patricia W. Stone;Cathy Mooney-Kane;Elaine L. Larson;Teresa Horan

  • The World Health Organization hand hygiene observation method

    Hugo Sax;Benedetta Allegranzi;Marie-Noëlle Chraïti;John Boyce

  • Skin hygiene and infection prevention: more of the same or different approaches?

    Elaine Larson

  • Systematic review of economic analyses of health care-associated infections.

    Patricia W. Stone;Deborah Braccia;Elaine Larson

  • Measurement of organizational culture and climate in healthcare.

    Robyn R. Gershon;Patricia W. Stone;Suzanne R. Bakken;Elaine L. Larson

  • Antibiotic resistance: What is so special about multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria?

    Martin Exner;Sanjay Bhattacharya;Bärbel Christiansen;Jürgen Gebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Saiman
Lisa Saiman Columbia University
Phyllis Della-Latta
Phyllis Della-Latta Columbia University Medical Center
Franklin D. Lowy
Franklin D. Lowy Columbia University
Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet University of Geneva
Suzanne Bakken
Suzanne Bakken Columbia University
Sherry Glied
Sherry Glied New York University
Theoklis E. Zaoutis
Theoklis E. Zaoutis Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
James J. Leyden
James J. Leyden University of Pennsylvania
Stephen Morse
Stephen Morse University of Surrey
Matthew Neidell
Matthew Neidell Columbia University

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