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Lenglet AD, van Deursen B, Viana R, Abubakar N, Hoare S, et al.

2019-08-02 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

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Hand hygiene adherence monitoring and feedback can reduce health care-acquired infections in hospitals. Few low-cost hand hygiene adherence monitoring tools exist in low-r...

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Sheather J, Jobanputra K, Schopper D, Pringle J, Venis S, et al.

2016-09-06 • PLOS Medicine

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• Humanitarian organisations often have to innovate to deliver health care and aid to populations in complex and volatile contexts.

• Innovation projec...

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Älgå ABK, Karlow Herzog K, Alrawashdeh M, Wong S, Khankeh H, et al.

2018-06-27 • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Globally, armed conflict is a major contributor to mortality and morbidity. The treatment of war-associated injuries is largely experience-based. Evidence is weak due to difficulty in co...

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Azman AS, Ciglenecki I, Wamala JF, Lynch JA, Aggarwal R, et al.

2019-07-25 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Obonyo N, Brent B, Olupot-Olupot P, Boele van Hensbroek M, Kuipers I, et al.

2017-05-03 • Critical Care

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Fluid therapy in severely malnourished children is hypothesized to be deleterious owing to compromised cardiac function. We evaluated World Health Organization (WHO) fluid...

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Chaintarli K, Lenglet AD, Beauzile BD, Senat-Delva R, Mabou MM, et al.

2018-08-30 • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Patient colonization with extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing gram-negative bacteria (ESBL-GNB) could serve as a
potential reservoir for transmission of multidrug-resistant (MDR...

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Ssonko C, Gonzalez L, Mesic A, da Fonseca M, Achar J, et al.

2017-07-21 • Journal of the International AIDS Society

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Countries in the West and Central African regions struggle to offer quality HIV care at scale, despite HIV prevalence being relatively low. In these challenging operatin...

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Alga A, Wong S, Haweizy R, Conneryd Lundgren K, von Schreeb J, et al.

2018-11-26 • JMIR Research Protocols

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In armed conflict, injuries commonly affect the extremities and contamination with foreign material often increases the risk of infection. The use of negative-pressure wou...

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Alga A, Wong S, Shoaib M, Lundgren KC, Giske CG, et al.

2018-05-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases

Armed conflicts are a major contributor to injury and death globally. Conflict-related injuries are associated with a high risk of wound infection, but it is unknown to what extent infec...

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Brigden G, Castro JL, Ditiu L, Gray G, Hanna D, et al.

2017-05-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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Brigden G, du Cros PAK, Wong S

2016-01-01 • European Respiratory Journal

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Buth P, de Gryse B, Healy S, Hoedt V, Newell T, et al.

2018-03-17 • Journal of Medical Ethics

Humanitarian organisations often work alongside those responsible for serious wrongdoing. In these circumstances, accusations of moral complicity are sometimes levelled at decision maker...

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Sheather J, Jobanputra K, Schopper D, Pringle J, Venis S, et al.

2016-07-01 • PLOS Medicine

SUMMARY POINTS

-- Humanitarian organisations often have to innovate to deliver health care and aid to populations in complex and volatile contexts.
-- Innovation projects ca...

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Bowden S, Braker K, Checchi F, Wong S

2012-11-27 • Conflict and Health

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Prospective surveillance is a recognised approach for measuring death rates in humanitarian emergencies. However, there is limited evidence on how such surveillance should...

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Alga A, Bashaireh K, Wong S, Lundgren KC, von Schreeb J

2018-07-01

Extremity wounds and fractures constitute the majority of conflict-related traumatic injuries, both for civilians (1) and combatants (2). Conflict-related injuries often result in soft a...

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Alga A, Karlow Herzog K, Alrawashdeh M, Wong S, Khankeh H, et al.

2018-12-01 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) constitute a major contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide, with a greater burden on low- and middle-income countries. War-related injuri...

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Älgå ABK, Haweizy R, Bashaireh K, Wong S, Lundgren KC, et al.

2020-03-01 • Lancet Global Health

Background: In armed conflict, injuries among civilians are usually complex and commonly affect the extremities. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is an alternative to standard trea...

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Alga A, Lofgren J, Haweizy R, Bashaireh K, Wong S, et al.

2022-02-10 • World Journal of Emergency Surgery

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Clinical outcomes after negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and standard treatment of conflict-related extremity wounds are similar. In resource-limited settings, cost ...

Science Portal

Inclusion of real-time hand hygiene observation and feedback in a multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy in low-resource settings

A Médecins Sans Frontières ethics framework for humanitarian innovation

"Reality rarely looks like the guidelines": a qualitative study of the challenges hospital-based physicians encounter in war wound management

Hepatitis E should be considered a neglected tropical disease

Myocardial and haemodynamic responses to two fluid regimens in African children with severe malnutrition and hypovolaemic shock (AFRIM study)

High prevalence of ESBL-positive bacteria in an obstetrics emergency hospital and neonatal care unit—Haiti, 2016

Delivering HIV care in challenging operating environments: the MSF experience towards differentiated models of care for settings with multiple basic health care needs

Negative-pressure wound therapy versus standard treatment of adult patients with conflict-related extremity wounds: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Infection with high proportion of multidrug-resistant bacteria in conflict-related injuries is associated with poor outcomes and excess resource consumption: a cohort study of Syrian patients treated in Jordan

Tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance - new models of research and development needed

Barriers to New Drug Development in Respiratory Disease

'He who helps the guilty, shares the crime'? INGOs, moral narcissism and complicity in wrongdoing

A Médecins Sans Frontières ethics framework for humanitarian innovation plus case studies to guide its use

Implementation and utilisation of community-based mortality surveillance: a case study from Chad

A prospective, randomized, controlled trial of negative-pressure wound therapy use in conflict-related extremity wounds

Perceptions of healthcare-associated infection and antibiotic resistance among physicians treating Syrian patients with war-related injuries

Negative pressure wound therapy versus standard treatment in patients with acute conflict-related extremity wounds: a pragmatic, multisite, randomised controlled trial

Cost analysis of negative-pressure wound therapy versus standard treatment of acute conflict-related extremity wounds within a randomized controlled trial