Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in the Operating Room: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: The global healthcare industry has a substantial environmental footprint and therefore has a responsibility to decrease its impact. Changes to increase sustainability will only occur if healthcare providers (HCPs) and decision-makers understand and incorporate environmentally conscious practices in the operating room (OR). This scoping review aimed to assess hospital initiatives undertaken to support environmental sustainability in the OR, with a focus on HCP and hospital decision-maker beliefs and perceptions related to sustainability. A scoping review was conducted using Embase and PubMed. Searches were performed to identify relevant studies published between January 2011 and November 2022. A total of 163 publications were included: 10 systematic literature reviews and 153 original resea

SUBMITTER: Gorgun E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11415109 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature