Background: Over 4 million patients acquire a healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) in
Europe every year, indicating possible shortcomings in hospitals converting evidence-based …

How can value cocreation in complex human-centered service systems (HCSSs) like health
care be facilitated? We address this question by introducing the novel role of service …

Cysteine/histidine-dependent amidohydrolase/peptidase (CHAP) and amidase are known
as catalytic domains of the bacteriophage-derived endolysin LysK and were previously …

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most relevant opportunistic pathogens involved in
many biofilm-associated diseases, and is a major cause of nosocomial infections, mainly …

Objective Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose a challenge to patient safety.
Although studies have explored individual level, few have focused on organizational factors …

Background The carriage of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens in medical students has
not been studied extensively, despite the fact that they are in contact with patients and …

Objectives To identify key factors associated with Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) in
healthcare at the hospital organization level. Design Longitudinal study covering the period …

Objective To use hospital-level data from the US to determine whether private patient rooms
(PPRs) are associated with fewer in hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the highest reported complications of surgery
and serious postoperative nosocomial infections associated with patient morbidity …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter
baumannii (MRAB) are serious life-threating pathogens. The rapid detection of those …