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Sustainable kidney careWelcome to the KitNewCare Sustainable Kidney Care CourseThis course explores what healthcare workers in nephrology can do to become leaders in sustainable transformation,…
Combatting antimicrobial resistance – theUK second five-year national action plancontinues to promote optimal use of antimicrobials in humans to ensure safe and effective patient care by strengthening…
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Aims
Healthcare accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with medicines making a sizeable contribution. Product-level medicine emission…
Abstract
Background
In-hospital promotion of the oral route and IV to oral switch (IVOST)1are key antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiatives providing benefits for patients, staff and the…
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12 Nov 2024 •
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R Rodger, A Robertson, E Thompson, K Downie, S Thompson, G Ray, L Chisholm, R Hillson
The Kidney Care Sustainability Scholars Programme - a partnership between the UK Kidney Association (UKKA) and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) - equipped a group of five motivated scholars to…
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2 Feb 2024 •
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Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and UKKA/CSH Group Scholars
This insightful and timely UKKA webinar, hosted by Shazia Adalat and Suren Kanagasundaram, looks into the latest plans and developments across the kidney care community to help drive and promote…
Chen, M., Zhou, R., Du, C. et al. Int Urol Nephrol (2016). doi:10.1007/s11255-016-1418-5
This study aimed to determine the carbon footprints of peritoneal dialysis (PD) with the different…
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2015) 30 (6): 1018-1027.
Approximately 2 million chronic haemodialysis patients produce over 2 000 000 tons of waste per year that includes about 600 000 tons of…
Key learning point:
Administering IV antibiotics by bolus instead of infusion where possible offers great cost and carbon savings as well as more efficient use of nursing time. Savings could be…
