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Jan Gralton; William D Rawlinson; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Health care workers' perceptions predicts uptake of personal protective equipment.
Leon J Worth; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Is it possible to achieve a target of zero central line associated bloodstream infections?
E Geoffrey Playford; David McDougall; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates.

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2013: Jan Gralton; William D Rawlinson; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Health care workers' perceptions predicts uptake of personal protective equipment.
American journal of infection control 2013;41(1):2-7.
2012: Leon J Worth; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Is it possible to achieve a target of zero central line associated bloodstream infections?
Current opinion in infectious diseases 2012;25(6):650-7.
2012: E Geoffrey Playford; David McDougall; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Problematic linkage of publicly disclosed hand hygiene compliance and health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia rates.
The Medical journal of Australia 2012;197(1):29-30.
2012: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Farideh Yousefi; Najmeh Maharlouei; Mehrdad Askarian
Predicting hand hygiene among Iranian health care workers using the theory of planned behavior.
American journal of infection control 2012;40(4):336-9.
2012: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Anthony R Burrell
Zero risk for central line-associated bloodstream infection: are we there yet?.
Critical care medicine 2012;40(2):388-93.
2011: Graeme R Nimmo; Julie C Pearson; Jan M Bell; Keryn J Christiansen; Peter J Collignon; Geoffrey W Coombs; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Antimicrobial susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2009: report from the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report 2011;35(3):237-43.
2011: Anthony R Burrell; Eda Calabria; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Margherita Murgo; Annette C Pantle; Robert Herkes
Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia.
The Medical journal of Australia 2011;194(11):583-7.
2011: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Jan Gralton
Unmasking the evidence about masks.
The Medical journal of Australia 2011;194(5):222-3.
2011: Holly Seale; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Debbie Van; Jacinta Crimmins; C Raina Macintyre
University communication strategies during a pandemic-were the messages received?
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP 2011;17(1):E29-32.
2011: Jan Gralton; Euan Tovey; Mary-Louise Mclaws; William D Rawlinson
The role of particle size in aerosolised pathogen transmission: a review.
The Journal of infection 2011;62(1):1-13.
2011: Jan Gralton; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Using evidence-based medicine to protect healthcare workers from pandemic influenza: Is it possible?
Critical care medicine 2011;39(1):170-8.
2010: John G Wakefield; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Michael Whitby; Leanne Patton
Patient safety culture: factors that influence clinician involvement in patient safety behaviours.
Quality & safety in health care 2010;19(6):585-91.
2010: B Marjadi; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Hand hygiene in rural Indonesian healthcare workers: barriers beyond sinks, hand rubs and in-service training.
The Journal of hospital infection 2010;76(3):256-60.
2010: Catherine Sharp; Mary-Louise Mclaws
An hypothesis of the "middle model" concept.
Annals of plastic surgery 2010;64(6):807.
2010: Brahmaputra Marjadi; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Rural Indonesian health care workers' constructs of infection prevention and control knowledge.
American journal of infection control 2010;38(5):399-403.
2010: Jan Gralton; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Protecting healthcare workers from pandemic influenza: N95 or surgical masks?
Critical care medicine 2010;38(2):657-67.
2010: Holly Seale; Anita E Heywood; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Kirsten F Ward; Chris P Lowbridge; Debbie Van; C Raina MacIntyre
Why do I need it? I am not at risk! Public perceptions towards the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine.
BMC infectious diseases 2010;10():99.
2010: Debbie Van; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Jacinta Crimmins; C Raina MacIntyre; Holly Seale
University life and pandemic influenza: attitudes and intended behaviour of staff and students towards pandemic (H1N1) 2009.
BMC public health 2010;10():130.
2009: Annette C Pantle; Kimberley R Fitzpatrick; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Clifford F Hughes
A statewide approach to systematising hand hygiene behaviour in hospitals: clean hands save lives, part I.
The Medical journal of Australia 2009;191(8 Suppl):S8-S12.
2009: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Annette C Pantle; Kimberley R Fitzpatrick; Clifford F Hughes
More than hand hygiene is needed to affect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical indicator rates: clean hands save lives, part IV.
The Medical journal of Australia 2009;191(8 Suppl):S26-31.
2009: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Annette C Pantle; Kimberley R Fitzpatrick; Clifford F Hughes
Improvements in hand hygiene across New South Wales public hospitals: clean hands save lives, part III.
The Medical journal of Australia 2009;191(8 Suppl):S18-24.
2009: Kimberley R Fitzpatrick; Annette C Pantle; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Clifford F Hughes
Culture change for hand hygiene: clean hands save lives, part II.
The Medical journal of Australia 2009;191(8 Suppl):S13-7.
2009: A Bannan; E Buono; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Thomas Gottlieb
A survey of medical staff attitudes to an antibiotic approval and stewardship programme.
Internal medicine journal 2009;39(10):662-8.
2009: Holly Seale; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Anita E Heywood; Kirsten F Ward; Chris P Lowbridge; Debbie Van; Jan Gralton; C Raina MacIntyre
The community's attitude towards swine flu and pandemic influenza.
The Medical journal of Australia 2009;191(5):267-9.
2009: Brahmaputra Marjadi; Astrid Pratidina Susilo; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Hepatitis B-related policies: Inconsistent patient safety in Indonesian hospitals.
American journal of infection control 2009;37(6):520-1.
2009: Mehrdad Askarian; Zahra Khazaeipour; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Influenza vaccination uptake among students and clinical staff of a university in Iran.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 2009;13(4):476-82.
2009: Geoffrey W Coombs; Graeme R Nimmo; Julie C Pearson; Keryn J Christiansen; Jan M Bell; Peter J Collignon; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Prevalence of MRSA strains among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from outpatients, 2006.
Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report 2009;33(1):10-20.
2009: Judith Shu-Chu Shiao; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Ming-Hsiu Lin; Janine Jagger; Chiou-Jong Chen
Chinese EPINet and recall rates for percutaneous injuries: an epidemic proportion of underreporting in the Taiwan healthcare system.
Journal of occupational health 2009;51(2):132-6.
2008: Lawrence W Hirst; Cheryl Pascual; Peter Madden; Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Potential effect of excluding variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on the eye donor pool in Australia.
Cornea 2008;27(7):773-5.
2008: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Karen Slater; Edward Tong; Barbara Johnson
Three successful interventions in health care workers that improve compliance with hand hygiene: is sustained replication possible?
American journal of infection control 2008;36(5):349-55.
2008: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Karen Slater
Needlestick injuries in a major teaching hospital: the worthwhile effect of hospital-wide replacement of conventional hollow-bore needles.
American journal of infection control 2008;36(3):180-6.
2007: Natalie Edmiston; John Chuah; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Contact tracing in a regional sexual health clinic: audit outcomes and implications for sexually transmissible infection control.
Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 2007;31(6):576-80.
2007: Mehrdad Askarian; Soheila Shaghaghian; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Needlestick injuries among nurses of Fars province, Iran.
Annals of epidemiology 2007;17(12):988-92.
2007: Van Thi-Thuy Nguyen; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Gregory J Dore
Highly endemic hepatitis B infection in rural Vietnam.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology 2007;22(12):2093-100.
2007: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Hand hygiene: the behaviour is the solution.
The Journal of hospital infection 2007;67(3):291.
2007: Karen Slater; Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Prevention of needlestick injuries: the need for strategic marketing to address health care worker misperceptions.
American journal of infection control 2007;35(8):560-2.
2007: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Methodological difficulties in hand hygiene research.
The Journal of hospital infection 2007;67(2):194-5.
2007: Van Thi Thuy Nguyen; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Gregory J Dore
Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C infection in rural north Vietnam.
Hepatology international 2007;1(3):387-93.
2007: Graeme R Nimmo; Julie C Pearson; Peter J Collignon; Keryn J Christiansen; Geoffrey W Coombs; Jan M Bell; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Prevalence of MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital inpatients, 2005: report from the Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance.
Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report 2007;31(3):288-96.
2007: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Shane Doidge; B Collopy
Post-discharge surgical site surveillance: does patient education improve reliability of diagnosis?
The Journal of hospital infection 2007;66(3):237-42.
2007: Mehrdad Askarian; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Marysia Meylan
Knowledge, attitude, and practices related to standard precautions of surgeons and physicians in university-affiliated hospitals of Shiraz, Iran.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 2007;11(3):213-9.
2007: Michael Whitby; Carmem Lúcia Pessoa-Silva; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Benedetta Allegranzi; Hugo Sax; Elaine Larson; W H Seto; Liam Donaldson; Didier Pittet
Behavioural considerations for hand hygiene practices: the basic building blocks.
The Journal of hospital infection 2007;65(1):1-8.
2006: Catherine A Sharp; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Estimating the risk of pressure ulcer development: is it truly evidence based?
International wound journal 2006;3(4):344-53.
2006: Gordon A Harrison; Theresa Jacques; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Gabrielle Kilborn
Combinations of early signs of critical illness predict in-hospital death-the SOCCER study (signs of critical conditions and emergency responses).
Resuscitation 2006;71(3):327-34.
2006: Mehrdad Askarian; Kamran Mirzaei; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Attitudes, beliefs, and infection control practices of Iranian dentists associated with HIV-positive patients.
American journal of infection control 2006;34(8):530-3.
2006: Mehrdad Askarian; Ramin Shiraly; Kiarash Aramesh; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding contact precautions among Iranian physicians.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 2006;27(8):868-72.
2006: Natalie Edmiston; John Chuah; Mary-Louise Mclaws
An audit of contact tracing activities and records for chlamydia in an urban sexual health clinic.
Sexual health 2006;3(2):127-8.
2006: Nicholas Graves; Kate Halton; Merrilyn Curtis; Shane Doidge; David Lairson; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Michael Whitby
Costs of surgical site infections that appear after hospital discharge.
Emerging infectious diseases 2006;12(5):831-4.
2006: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Michael W Ross
Why healthcare workers don't wash their hands: a behavioral explanation.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 2006;27(5):484-92.
2006: Theresa Jacques; Gordon A Harrison; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Gabrielle Kilborn
Signs of critical conditions and emergency responses (SOCCER): a model for predicting adverse events in the inpatient setting.
Resuscitation 2006;69(2):175-83.
2006: Graeme R Nimmo; Geoffrey W Coombs; Julie C Pearson; Frances G O'Brien; Keryn J Christiansen; John D Turnidge; Iain B Gosbell; Peter J Collignon; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Australian community: an evolving epidemic.
The Medical journal of Australia 2006;184(8):384-8.
2006: R Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Comment on: Johnson PDR, et al. Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. Med J Aust 2005; 183: 509-19.
The Medical journal of Australia 2006;184(5):253-4; author reply 254.
2006: Mehrdad Askarian; Leila Malekmakan; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Najaf Zare; Jennifer Patterson
Prevalence of needlestick injuries among medical students at a university in Iran.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 2006;27(1):99-101.
2005: Mehrdad Askarian; Ramin Shiraly; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of contact precautions among Iranian nurses.
American journal of infection control 2005;33(8):486-8.
2005: Pamela K Sykes; Robert K Brodribb; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Alistair McGregor
When continuous surgical site infection surveillance is interrupted: the Royal Hobart Hospital experience.
American journal of infection control 2005;33(7):422-7.
2005: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Geoffrey Berry
Nonuniform risk of bloodstream infection with increasing central venous catheter-days.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 2005;26(8):715-9.
2005: Gordon A Harrison; Theresa Jacques; Gabrielle Kilborn; Mary-Louise Mclaws
The prevalence of recordings of the signs of critical conditions and emergency responses in hospital wards--the SOCCER study.
Resuscitation 2005;65(2):149-57.
2005: Mehrdad Askarian; Kamran Mirzaei; Linda M Mundy; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding isolation precautions among Iranian healthcare workers.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 2005;26(1):105-8.
2004: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Handwashing in healthcare workers: accessibility of sink location does not improve compliance.
The Journal of hospital infection 2004;58(4):247-53.
2004: Peter C Taylor; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Margot De Borde; Robert Pritchard
Isolation and identification of Burkholderia cepacia by participants in an external Quality Assurance Program (QAP) between 1994 and 1999.
Pathology 2004;36(4):352-7.
2003: Mary-Louise Mclaws; P C Taylor
The Hospital Infection Standardised Surveillance (HISS) programme: analysis of a two-year pilot.
The Journal of hospital infection 2003;53(4):259-67.
2002: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; B Collopy; David F M Looke; Shane Doidge; B Henderson; L Selvey; G Gardner; J Stackelroth; A Sartor
Post-discharge surveillance: can patients reliably diagnose surgical wound infections?
The Journal of hospital infection 2002;52(3):155-60.
2002: R Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Hollow-bore needlestick injuries in a tertiary teaching hospital: epidemiology, education and engineering.
The Medical journal of Australia 2002;177(8):418-22.
2002: Judith Shu-Chu Shiao; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Kun-Yen Huang; Y. Leon Guo
Student nurses in Taiwan at high risk for needlestick injuries.
Annals of epidemiology 2002;12(3):197-201.
2001: Anthony P Morton; Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; A Dobson; S McElwain; David F M Looke; J Stackelroth; A Sartor
The application of statistical process control charts to the detection and monitoring of hospital-acquired infections.
Journal of quality in clinical practice 2001;21(4):112-7.
2001: Judith Shu-Chu Shiao; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Kun-Yen Huang; Y. Leon Guo
Sharps injuries among hospital support personnel.
The Journal of hospital infection 2001;49(4):262-7.
2001: Michael Whitby; Mary-Louise Mclaws; G Berry
Risk of death from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a meta-analysis.
The Medical journal of Australia 2001;175(5):264-7.
2000: Mary-Louise Mclaws; M Caelli
Pilot testing standardized surveillance: Hospital Infection Standardised Surveillance (HISS). On behalf of the HISS Reference Group.
American journal of infection control 2000;28(6):401-5.
2000: Mary-Louise Mclaws; C Murphy; Michael Whitby
Standardising surveillance of nosocomial infections: the HISS program. Hospital Infection Standardised Surveillance.
Journal of quality in clinical practice 2000;20(1):6-11.
1999: Judith Shu-Chu Shiao; Mary-Louise Mclaws; Kun-Yen Huang; W C Ko; Y. Leon Guo
Prevalence of nonreporting behavior of sharps injuries in Taiwanese health care workers.
American journal of infection control 1999;27(3):254-7.
1998: L P Lam; Mary-Louise Mclaws
Hepatitis B vaccination coverage of Vietnamese children in south-western Sydney.
Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 1998;22(4):502-4.
1997: Mary-Louise Mclaws; C Murphy; P Taylor; M Ferson; J Gold; Robyn Ann Donnellan; D Dalton
Rate of seasonal spread of respiratory syncytial virus in a pediatric hospital.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 1997;18(11):778-80.
1995: Mary-Louise Mclaws; Jennifer C Learmont; B Wylie
Heterosexually acquired HIV infection in female blood donors: case series between 1985-1990.
AIDS care 1995;7(5):631-8.