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A Randomized Noninferiority Trial to Compare Enteral to Parenteral Phosphate Replacement on Biochemistry, Waste, and Environmental Impact and Healthcare Cost in Critically Ill Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypophosphatemia – Chinh D Nguyen et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-07-31T16:10:56+10:00Carbon neutral, Climate change, Publications, Sustainable health care|

Hypophosphatemia occurs frequently. Enteral, rather than IV, phosphate replacement may reduce fluid replacement, cost, and waste. Our primary outcome was serum phosphate at 24 hours with a noninferiority margin of 0.2 mmol/L. Secondary outcomes included cost savings and environmental waste reduction and additional IV fluid [...]

Single-use synthetic plastic and natural fibre anaesthetic drug trays: a comparative life cycle assessment of environmental impacts – Stephen J. Lightfoot et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-07-31T12:03:15+10:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Publications, Sustainable health care|

Single-use drug trays are widely used in anaesthesia procedures performed in Australia; however, their environmental impact has not been carefully assessed. A life cycle assessment was used to compare the carbon emissions resulting from the use of 10 types of single-use anaesthetic drug trays made [...]

Updating the Data: The Resource Consumption of Modern-Day Hemodialysis Systems – Katherine A. Barraclough et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T15:15:22+10:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Kidney, Publications, Sustainable health care|

A pressing need exists for hemodialysis resource usage data based on current-day practice and hemodialysis systems. Accordingly, this study aimed to measure and compare the water and energy requirements of hemodialysis equipment in use in 2 Australian satellite hemodialysis units under standard operating conditions. Power [...]

Clinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by healthcare: a systematic review – Kristen Pickles et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T13:40:38+10:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Health system, Low-value care, Overtesting, Publications, Sustainable health care|

The delivery of modern healthcare is inadvertently exacerbating illness and injury to populations through its own pollution. The global healthcare sector—health services and its medical supply chain—is responsible for approximately 5% of global net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (>2 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)) [...]

Less is more for greener intensive care – Katy J. L. Bell & Rachel Stancliffe

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T13:31:10+10:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, End of life, Low-value care, Overdiagnosis, Overtesting, Publications, Sustainable health care|

Climate change threatens human health and increases demand for healthcare. Global temperature is rising in near linear relationship with increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere, bringing hotter and more extreme weather. Health consequences include direct injuries, deaths and illness, and indirect effects such as [...]

Children’s voices must be included in policy development to mitigate society’s betrayal of children – Susan dosReis et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-04-12T12:00:43+10:00Climate change, Health policy, Mental Health, Publications|

Abbasi’s assertion of “society’s betrayal of children, their health, and our future” and the appalling decline in child health is sobering. The International Network for Epidemiology in Policy (INEP) represents 24 epidemiology societies across the globe and works to tackle policies that have global public [...]

Methods to include environmental impacts in health economic evaluations and health technology assessments: a scoping review – Jake T.W. Williams et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-04-05T15:20:05+11:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Publications, Sustainable health care|

The environmental impacts of healthcare are an important factor that should be considered during health technology assessments. This study aims to summarise the evidence that exists about methods to include environmental impacts in health economic evaluations and health technology assessments.

Cutting back on low-value healthcare practices supports sustainable kidney care – Scott McAlister et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-04-05T15:12:07+11:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Ethical considerations, Kidney, Low-value care, Publications, Shared decision making, Sustainable health care|

July 2023 marked the hottest month on record, underscoring the urgent need for action on climate change. The imperative to reduce carbon emissions extends to all sectors, including health care, with it being responsible for 5.5% of global emissions. In decarbonizing health care, although much [...]

Integrating a climate lens into the design of education programmes for health professionals – Tara Tai-Wen Chen et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-02-13T13:51:26+11:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Health professionals, Health system, Policy, Publications, Sustainable health care|

Climate change should be incorporated in to educational and training programmes for all health professionals to ensure they are able to urgently adapt and transition our health systems to low carbon and low waste models of care and to become climate resilient. However, the uptake [...]

Asthma in Adults, To the editor – Katy J.L. Bell, Luise Kazda & Gillian Parker

Lucia Marcello2024-02-13T13:49:03+11:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Prescribing, Publications, Sustainable health care|

TO THE EDITOR: Given the recognition by the Journal of the urgent need to achieve “net-zero health care,” it is disappointing that low-carbon management options were not mentioned in the recent review by Mosnaim regarding asthma in adults. Asthma management is a carbon hotspot and an important target [...]

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