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  1. Disinfection of hospital sink drains enriches pseudomonadota and efflux pump-mediated antibiotic resistance in reestablished biofilms

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Richard Martinello

  2. Expanded gram-negative antimicrobial prophylaxis reduces surgical site infection in orthopedic surgery

    Article • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, January 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  3. Decontamination approaches and strategies for the prevention of sink drain-related healthcare-associated infections

    Article • Clinical Microbiology Reviews, November 2025, ASM Journals

    Richard Martinello

  4. Game Playbooks 2.0: An Updated Strategy for Supporting Game-Based Behavior Change Interventions

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Richard Martinello

  5. Bactericidal Efficacy of Ultraviolet-C Light on Virtual Reality Devices: In Vitro Assessment of Bacterial Killing

    Article • JMIR Formative Research, September 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Richard Martinello

  6. Applying principles to practice: cleaning and disinfection of extended reality equipment used in healthcare settings

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, August 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  7. Respiratory equality: let’s stop playing favorites with COVID-19 in the healthcare setting

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  8. Disinfection of central venous access device needleless connectors: A human factors analysis

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, February 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  9. Characterizing healthcare personnel attitudes toward receipt of a voluntary bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine during a COVID-19 outbreak at a behavioral health hospital in Connecticut

    Article • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  10. Disinfection of Virtual Reality Devices in Health Care Settings: In Vitro Assessment and Survey Study

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Richard Martinello

  11. A mixed-methods evaluation on the efficacy and perceptions of needleless connector disinfectants

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, April 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  12. Air exchanges, climate change, and severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): Results from a survey of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network (SRN)

    Article • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  13. From implementation to sustainment: A large-scale adverse event disclosure support program generated through embedded research in the Veterans Health Administration

    Article • Healthcare, June 2021, Elsevier

    Richard Martinello

  14. Epidemiology, Infection Prevention, Testing Data, and Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 on Five Inpatient Psychiatric Units in a large Academic Medical Center

    Article • Psychiatry Research, April 2021, Elsevier

    Richard Martinello

  15. Mass severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing of asymptomatic healthcare personnel

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  16. Nursing preference for alcohol-based hand rub volume

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  17. The effectiveness of a novel colorant additive in the daily cleaning of patient rooms

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, April 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  18. Mixed-methods analysis of glove use as a barrier to hand hygiene

    Article • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, November 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  19. Acute Pericarditis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello

  20. Acute pericarditis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Richard Martinello