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Brett Mitchell
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Adjunct Professor of Nursing
Also affiliated: Griffith University (2016–2017); University of South Wales (2007); University of Tasmania (2011–2013); Loyola University Medical Center (1999); Center for Veterinary Medicine (1994); Royal Adelaide Hospital (2010); Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2024); University of Kentucky (1999); Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (2013); Loyola University Chicago (1999); PPG Industries (United States) (2023); Avondale University (2013–2025); Agence Nationale de la Recherche (2014); Gosford Hospital (2022–2025); Hunter Water (2020–2024); LMU Klinikum (1991); Hunter Medical Research Institute (2023–2025); Department of Health and Human Services (2011); Cabrini Hospital (2022); MIT University (2012); Engineering Associates (United States) (2017); BioReliance (United States) (1994); Wellcome Collection (2020); Reproductive Medicine Institute (2015); Glamorgan Archives (2007); Tasmanian Abalone Council (Australia) (2011); Central Coast Local Health District (2021–2025); Wellcome Library (2020); Hunter New England Local Health District (2025); Government Communications Headquarters (2002); Monash University (2022–2025); Drexel University (2024); University of Newcastle Australia (2019–2025); James Cook University (2009–2011); Australian Catholic University (2011–2016); Forestry Tasmania (2013); Macquarie University (2025)
35 h-index
338 pubs
3,916 cited
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Brett Mitchell's research focuses on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), particularly urinary tract infections (UTIs) and Clostridium difficile infections. He has conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses to investigate the risks associated with organism acquisition from prior room occupants and to examine ciprofloxacin resistance in UTIs. Mitchell's work also includes evaluating the impact of interventions on HAIs, such as a multicenter randomized trial of an environmental cleaning bundle and assessing outcomes from national hand hygiene initiatives.
His research has explored the epidemiology of infections in Australian hospitals, including the increasing incidence of Clostridium difficile infection and the prevalence of HAIs among adult inpatients. Mitchell has also investigated factors influencing HAIs, such as hospital staffing levels, and analyzed outcomes associated with healthcare-associated UTIs, including length of stay and mortality.
With a highly cited designation, Mitchell has contributed significantly to the field, evidenced by his h-index of 35 and over 300 publications. He leads a research group and remains recently active in his research endeavors.
Metrics
- h-index: 35
- Publications: 338
- Citations: 3,916
Positions
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Adjunct Professor of Nursing 2022–presentMonash University ORCID
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Professor of Nursing and Health Service Research 2022–presentAvondale University School of Nursing and Health ORCID
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Editor-in-Chief 2016–presentAustralasian College for Infection Prevention and Control Infection, Disease and Health ORCID
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Adjunct Professor of Nursing publications 2025Arkansas Tech University ORCID
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Professor of Nursing 2019–2022University of Newcastle School of Nursing and Midwifery ORCID
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Avondale College of Higher Education - Sydney Campus 2013–2019Nursing ORCID
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Tasmania Department of Health and Human Services 2008–2013Population Health ORCID
Selected Publications
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The effectiveness of preoperative oral carbohydrate loading on postoperative nausea and vomiting in adults receiving total intravenous anaesthesia compared to inhalational anaesthesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
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Aseptic technique in clinical nursing settings: A scoping review (2025)
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Aseptic technique in clinical nursing settings: a scoping review (2025)
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Protocol to establish standards for the elements of infection prevention and control programs and practice and competency standards for infection control professionals in Australian hospitals (2025)
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Government funding for healthcare infection prevention research: A scoping review of the past decade (2025)
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The effectiveness of preoperative oral carbohydrate loading on postoperative nausea and vomiting in adults receiving total intravenous anaesthesia compared to inhalational anaesthesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
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Hospital cleaning: considerations for designing and maintaining a successful environmental cleaning program (2025)
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Nurses’ experiences of providing oral care to hospitalised patients: A qualitative study (2025)
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Economic Evaluation of Enhanced Cleaning and Disinfection of Shared Medical Equipment (2025)
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Protocol to establish standards for the elements infection prevention and control programs and competencies for infection control professionals in Australian residential aged care homes (2025)
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Evaluating the accuracy of an automatic counting system to detect dispensing of hand hygiene product (2024)
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Air Purifiers and Acute Respiratory Infections in Residential Aged Care (2024)
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Infection prevention and control professionals: Stress, resilience, personality traits and views about their workforce and profession (2024)
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Cleaning time and motion: an observational study on the time required to clean shared medical equipment in hospitals effectively (2024)
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Impact of central-line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-related bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Philip L. Russo
Avondale University (AU)
52 shared publications
- Outcomes from the first 2 years of the Australian National Hand Hygiene Initiative
- The prevalence of healthcare associated infections among adult inpatients at nineteen large Australian acute-care public hospitals: a point prevalence survey
- The burden of healthcare-associated infection in Australian hospitals: A systematic review of the literature
- Strategies to reduce non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia: A systematic review
- How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A scoping review
Showing 5 of 52 shared publications
Anne Gardner
Australian Catholic University (AU)
49 shared publications
- Ciprofloxacin resistance in community- and hospital-acquired Escherichia coli urinary tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
- An environmental cleaning bundle and health-care-associated infections in hospitals (REACH): a multicentre, randomised trial
- Hospital Staffing and Health Care–Associated Infections: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- Mortality and Clostridium difficile infection: a review
- Five-Year Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Urinary Escherichia coli at an Australian Tertiary Hospital: Time Series Analyses of Prevalence Data
Showing 5 of 49 shared publications
Oyebola Fasugba
Australian Catholic University (AU)
29 shared publications
- Ciprofloxacin resistance in community- and hospital-acquired Escherichia coli urinary tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
- Five-Year Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Urinary Escherichia coli at an Australian Tertiary Hospital: Time Series Analyses of Prevalence Data
- A point prevalence cross-sectional study of healthcare-associated urinary tract infections in six Australian hospitals
- Chlorhexidine for meatal cleaning in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a multicentre stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of antiseptic agents for meatal cleaning in the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections
Showing 5 of 29 shared publications
Lisa Hall
25 shared publications
- An environmental cleaning bundle and health-care-associated infections in hospitals (REACH): a multicentre, randomised trial
- Increasing incidence of Clostridium difficile infection, Australia, 2011–2012
- Time spent by infection control professionals undertaking healthcare associated infection surveillance: A multi-centred cross sectional study
- Changes in knowledge and attitudes of hospital environmental services staff: The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study
- Hospital infection control units: Staffing, costs, and priorities
Showing 5 of 25 shared publications
Deborough Macbeth
Gold Coast Hospital (AU)
24 shared publications
- The burden of healthcare-associated infection in Australian hospitals: A systematic review of the literature
- Time spent by infection control professionals undertaking healthcare associated infection surveillance: A multi-centred cross sectional study
- Impact of electronic healthcare-associated infection surveillance software on infection prevention resources: a systematic review of the literature
- Hospital infection control units: Staffing, costs, and priorities
- Roles, responsibilities and scope of practice: describing the ‘state of play’ for infection control professionals in Australia and New Zealand
Showing 5 of 24 shared publications
Allen Cheng
Monash Health (AU)
24 shared publications
- The prevalence of healthcare associated infections among adult inpatients at nineteen large Australian acute-care public hospitals: a point prevalence survey
- Strategies to reduce non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia: A systematic review
- Investigating the effect of enhanced cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment on health-care-associated infections in Australia (CLEEN): a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised, controlled trial
- Chlorhexidine for meatal cleaning in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a multicentre stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial
- Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia
Showing 5 of 24 shared publications
Ramon Z. Shaban
The University of Sydney (AU)
21 shared publications
- The burden of healthcare-associated infection in Australian hospitals: A systematic review of the literature
- Impact of electronic healthcare-associated infection surveillance software on infection prevention resources: a systematic review of the literature
- Global burden, point sources, and outbreak management of healthcare-associated Burkholderia cepacia infections: An integrative review
- Organisation and governance of infection prevention and control in Australian residential aged care facilities: A national survey
- Scope of practice and educational needs of infection prevention and control professionals in Australian residential aged care facilities
Showing 5 of 21 shared publications
Nicholas Graves
Duke-NUS Medical School (SG)
20 shared publications
- An environmental cleaning bundle and health-care-associated infections in hospitals (REACH): a multicentre, randomised trial
- Chlorhexidine for meatal cleaning in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a multicentre stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial
- Changes in knowledge and attitudes of hospital environmental services staff: The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study
- Researching effective approaches to cleaning in hospitals: protocol of the REACH study, a multi-site stepped-wedge randomised trial
- Cost-effectiveness of an Environmental Cleaning Bundle for Reducing Healthcare-associated Infections
Showing 5 of 20 shared publications
Andrew J. Stewardson
Monash University (AU)
17 shared publications
- The prevalence of healthcare associated infections among adult inpatients at nineteen large Australian acute-care public hospitals: a point prevalence survey
- Strategies to reduce non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia: A systematic review
- Investigating the effect of enhanced cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment on health-care-associated infections in Australia (CLEEN): a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised, controlled trial
- Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia
- P2/N95 respirators & surgical masks to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection: Effectiveness & adverse effects
Showing 5 of 17 shared publications
Alistair McGregor
16 shared publications
- Methods to evaluate environmental cleanliness in healthcare facilities
- ASID (HICSIG)/AICA Position Statement: Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in patients
- Urinary Escherichia coli antimicrobial susceptibility profiles and their relationship with community antibiotic use in Tasmania, Australia
- Can homemade fit testing solutions be as effective as commercial products?
- An increase in community onset Clostridium difficile infection: a population-based study, Tasmania, Australia
Showing 5 of 16 shared publications
Kate Halton
Queensland University of Technology (AU)
16 shared publications
- An environmental cleaning bundle and health-care-associated infections in hospitals (REACH): a multicentre, randomised trial
- Time spent by infection control professionals undertaking healthcare associated infection surveillance: A multi-centred cross sectional study
- Changes in knowledge and attitudes of hospital environmental services staff: The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study
- Hospital infection control units: Staffing, costs, and priorities
- Researching effective approaches to cleaning in hospitals: protocol of the REACH study, a multi-site stepped-wedge randomised trial
Showing 5 of 16 shared publications
Martin Kiernan
University of West London (GB)
16 shared publications
- Investigating the effect of enhanced cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment on health-care-associated infections in Australia (CLEEN): a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised, controlled trial
- Risk of organism acquisition from prior room occupants: An updated systematic review
- Nurses' and midwives’ cleaning knowledge, attitudes and practices: An Australian study
- A randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of improving the cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment on healthcare-associated infections: the CLEaning and Enhanced disiNfection (CLEEN) study
- The power of podcasts: Exploring the endless possibilities of audio education and information in medicine, healthcare epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship
Showing 5 of 16 shared publications
Fiona Wilson
14 shared publications
- Increasing incidence of Clostridium difficile infection, Australia, 2011–2012
- Methods to evaluate environmental cleanliness in healthcare facilities
- ASID (HICSIG)/AICA Position Statement: Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in patients
- Australian graduating nurses’ knowledge, intentions and beliefs on infection prevention and control: a cross-sectional study
- An increase in community onset Clostridium difficile infection: a population-based study, Tasmania, Australia
Showing 5 of 14 shared publications
Stephanie J. Dancer
Edinburgh Napier University (GB)
14 shared publications
- Risk of organism acquisition from prior room occupants: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Methods to evaluate environmental cleanliness in healthcare facilities
- Controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a hospital and the role of hydrogen peroxide decontamination: an interrupted time series analysis
- Researching effective approaches to cleaning in hospitals: protocol of the REACH study, a multi-site stepped-wedge randomised trial
- Risk of organism acquisition from prior room occupants: An updated systematic review
Showing 5 of 14 shared publications
Anne Wells
University of Tasmania (AU)
13 shared publications
- ASID (HICSIG)/AICA Position Statement: Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in patients
- Australian graduating nurses’ knowledge, intentions and beliefs on infection prevention and control: a cross-sectional study
- Clostridium difficile infection in Tasmanian public hospitals 2006–2010
- Evaluating environment cleanliness using two approaches: a multi-centred Australian study
- Tasmanian Acute Public Hospitals Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance Report 22 - Annual Report 2013-14
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
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