Lenglet AD, van Deursen B, Viana R, Abubakar N, Hoare S, et al.
2019-08-02 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2019-08-02 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
IMPORTANCE 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...
Älgå ABK, Karlow Herzog K, Alrawashdeh M, Wong S, Khankeh H, et al.
2018-06-27 • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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...
Obonyo N, Brent B, Olupot-Olupot P, Boele van Hensbroek M, Kuipers I, et al.
2017-05-03 • Critical Care
2017-05-03 • Critical Care
BACKGROUND Fluid therapy in severely malnourished children is hypothesized to be deleterious owing to compromised cardiac function. We evaluated World Health Organization (WHO) fluid...
Chaintarli K, Lenglet AD, Beauzile BD, Senat-Delva R, Mabou MM, et al.
2018-08-30 • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
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...
Ssonko C, Gonzalez L, Mesic A, da Fonseca M, Achar J, et al.
2017-07-21 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2017-07-21 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
INTRODUCTION 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...
Alga A, Wong S, Haweizy R, Conneryd Lundgren K, von Schreeb J, et al.
2018-11-26 • JMIR Research Protocols
2018-11-26 • JMIR Research Protocols
BACKGROUND 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...
Alga A, Wong S, Shoaib M, Lundgren KC, Giske CG, et al.
2018-05-22 • BMC Infectious Diseases
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...
2017-05-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Buth P, de Gryse B, Healy S, Hoedt V, Newell T, et al.
2018-03-17 • Journal of Medical Ethics
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...
Sheather J, Jobanputra K, Schopper D, Pringle J, Venis S, et al.
2016-07-01 • PLOS Medicine
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...
BACKGROUND Prospective surveillance is a recognised approach for measuring death rates in humanitarian emergencies. However, there is limited evidence on how such surveillance should...
Alga A, Karlow Herzog K, Alrawashdeh M, Wong S, Khankeh H, et al.
2018-12-01 • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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...
Alga A, Bashaireh K, Wong S, Lundgren KC, von Schreeb J
2018-07-01
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...
Älgå ABK, Haweizy R, Bashaireh K, Wong S, Lundgren KC, et al.
2020-03-01 • Lancet Global Health
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...
Alga A, Lofgren J, Haweizy R, Bashaireh K, Wong S, et al.
2022-02-10 • World Journal of Emergency Surgery
2022-02-10 • World Journal of Emergency Surgery
BACKGROUND Clinical outcomes after negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and standard treatment of conflict-related extremity wounds are similar. In resource-limited settings, cost ...
