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Publication:Operating room waste management: A case study of primary hip operations at a leading National Health Service hospital in the United Kingdom - Melissa Pegg, Rebecca Rawson, Uchechukwu…
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Abstract
The current global ecological crisis threatens to irreversibly alter the conditions under which human civilization has evolved. Within…
The study used life cycle assessment (LCA) to estimate the environmental impacts and financial cost of repairing surgical scissors. The functional unit was one use of a reusable surgical scissor, and…
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June 2022
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Rizan, C., Brophy, T., Lillywhite, R., Reed M. & Bhutta, M. F.
This is an article from the IPEM (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine) newsletter by Imperial College Healthcare Trust's Principal Nuclear Medicine Physicist, Laura Perry, outlining some…
'The demand for eye care—the most common medical speciality in some countries—is increasing globally due to both demographic change and the development of eye health-care services in low-income and…
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June 2022
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Buchan, C., Thiel, C., Steyn, A., Somner, R., Venkatesh, R., Burton, M. and Ramke, J.
The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) Greener Respiratory Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) toolkit has been developed to support heathcare professionals working in the primary care setting to…
Are you interested in reducing the environmental impact of the treatment you provide to Respiratory patients? Have you heard about carbon footprint but don't know where to get started? Help is at…
Peninah Murage and colleagues argue that biodiversity is the cornerstone of healthy natural habitats. Its preservation is vital to human health and should therefore be embedded into medical and…
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October 2021
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Peninah Murage, Helena Reis Batalha, Silvia Lino, Kamil Sterniczuk