Metrics used in quality improvement publications addressing environmental sustainability in healthcare: A scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT: Quality improvement approaches are increasingly being used to address the problem of healthcare's climate and ecological impact. While sustainability is increasingly recognized as a domain of quality, consensus is lacking on the most appropriate measures and metrics for those looking to reduce ecological impacts through quality improvement initiatives. We propose a scoping review to summarize approaches for selecting and quantifying ecological impacts in the published quality improvement literature. We will search multiple electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Scopus) from 2000 onwards, to identify published quality improvement initiatives in the human healthcare setting intended to address ecological impact with at least one quantitative measure of ecological impact, such as

SUBMITTER: Sue-Chue-Lam C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11356433 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature