Clinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by healthcare: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To synthesise the available evidence on the effects of interventions designed to improve the delivery of healthcare that reduces the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of healthcare.

Design

Systematic review and structured synthesis.

Search sources

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, Web of Science and Embase from inception to 3 May 2023.

Selection criteria

Randomised, quasi-randomised and non-randomised controlled trials, interrupted time series and controlled or uncontrolled before-after studies that assessed interventions primarily designed to improve the delivery of healthcare that reduces the GHG emissions of healthcare initiated by clinicians or healthcare services within any setting.

Main outcome measures

Primary outcome

SUBMITTER: Pickles K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503105 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature