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Daniel Ricciuto

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Verified email at utoronto.ca
Cited by 1746

Impact of Infectious Disease Consultation on Quality of Care, Mortality, and Length of Stay in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Results From a Large Multicenter …

…, L Burry, M Steinberg, DR Ricciuto… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. We assessed the impact of infectious disease (ID) consultation on management
and outcome in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). Methods. A …

Angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 as clinically informative prognostic biomarkers of morbidity and mortality in severe sepsis

DR Ricciuto, CC dos Santos, M Hawkes… - Critical care …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine the utility of angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 as potentially novel
biomarkers of morbidity and mortality in patients with severe sepsis. Design: Multicenter …

Comparative effectiveness of cefazolin versus cloxacillin as definitive antibiotic therapy for MSSA bacteraemia: results from a large multicentre cohort study

…, L Burry, M Steinberg, DR Ricciuto… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives We compared the effectiveness of cefazolin versus cloxacillin in the treatment of
MSSA bacteraemia in terms of mortality and relapse. Methods A retrospective cohort study …

Multicenter study of health care cost of patients admitted to hospital with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: impact of length of stay and intensity of care

…, L Burry, AD Bai, M Steinberg, DR Ricciuto… - American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant
S aureus bacteremia (SAB) have both been associated with high morbidity and mortality …

Introduction of group electronic monitoring of hand hygiene on inpatient units: a multicenter cluster randomized quality improvement study

…, JE Powis, A McGeer, DR Ricciuto… - Clinical Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background The current approach to measuring hand hygiene (HH) relies on human auditors
who capture <1% of HH opportunities and rapidly become recognized by staff, resulting in …

Impact of COVID-19 on hospital hand hygiene performance: a multicentre observational study using group electronic monitoring

…, MP Muller, S Hota, JE Powis, DR Ricciuto… - … Open Access Journal, 2021 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Reliable reports on hand hygiene performance throughout the COVID-19
pandemic are lacking as most hospitals continue to rely on direct observation to measure this …

Use of Transthoracic Echocardiography in the Management of Low-Risk Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Results From a Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study

…, L Burry, AD Bai, M Steinberg, DR Ricciuto… - Cardiovascular …, 2015 - jacc.org
Objectives The aim of this study was to develop a prediction model to identify patients with
low-risk Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), in whom infective endocarditis (IE) can be …

Rectal and naris swabs: practical and informative samples for analyzing the microbiota of critically ill patients

…, A Leligdowicz, Y Zhang, KC Kain, DR Ricciuto… - Msphere, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Commensal microbiota are immunomodulatory, and their pathological perturbation can affect
the risk and outcomes of infectious and inflammatory diseases. Consequently, the human …

Utility of prior screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in predicting resistance of S. aureus infections

DR MacFadden, M Elligsen, A Robicsek, DR Ricciuto… - Cmaj, 2013 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is intended
to reduce nosocomial spread by identifying patients colonized by MRSA. Given the …

Validation and implementation of group electronic hand hygiene monitoring across twenty-four critical care units

…, M Downing, D Mertz, DR Ricciuto… - Infection Control & …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objectives:An accurate estimate of the average number of hand hygiene opportunities per
patient hour (HHO rate) is required to implement group electronic hand hygiene monitoring …