OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology is 22. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 prevention training with video-based feedback in nursing homes: impact on staff safety behaviors	283
Antibiogram development for Australian residential aged care facilities	223
ICE volume 45 issue 11 Cover and Back matter	175
Using electronic medical records in hospital simulation for infection control intervention assessment	110
ICE volume 45 issue 8 Cover and Back matter	95
Antibiotic practice and stewardship in the management of neutropenic fever: a survey of US institutions	94
A comparative analysis of infection and complication rates between single- and double-lumen ports	91
Initial and 5-day positivity rate of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in exposed inpatients within shared rooms during the omicron-variant domi	63
ICE volume 46 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	60
Epidemiologic validation of the National Healthcare Safety Network’s updated Clostridioides difficile test method definition	59
Bacterial contamination of air and surfaces during dental procedures—An experimental pilot study using Staphylococcus aureus	45
Cost of personal protective equipment during the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic	37
Evaluation of Department of Defense hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) using a novel Core Elements scoring approach and modeling Core Elements scores with metrics related to ASP outcom	34
Evaluating barriers and potential solutions to speaking up about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms: A survey among nursing home workers	31
Use of human-centric and participatory design for modifying a daily environmental cleaning checklist: a quality improvement study	31
Chlorhexidine gluconate skin levels and organism decolonization: what we know and what we don’t know	31
Association of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine booster with control of a COVID-19 outbreak in a long-term care facility in Switzerland, November to December 2021	29
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among nonphysician healthcare personnel by work location at a tertiary-care center, Iowa, 2020–2021	27
Evaluating the impact of incorporating clinical practice guidelines for the management of infectious diseases into an electronic application (e-app)	26
Healthcare personnel interactive pathogen exposure response system	26
A novel method for the quantitative assessment of the fitted containment efficiency of face coverings	25
Audit and feedback as a tool to increase compliance with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) screening and decrease CPE transmission in the hospital	23
Risk of viral respiratory infection associated with shared washroom between adjoining rooms: a test-negative study	22
ICE volume 46 issue 11 Cover and Front matter	22
Benchmarking broad-spectrum antibiotic use in older adult pneumonia inpatients: a risk-adjusted smoothed observed-to-expected ratio approach	22

Concurrent transmission of multiple carbapenemases in a long-term acute-care hospital