Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.
National Engineering Laboratory for Pipeline Safety/MOE Key Laboratory of Petroleum Engineering/Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Oil and Gas Distribution Technology, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Fuxue Road No. 18, Changping District, Beijing 102249, PR China.
University of Glasgow Medical School, Wolfson Medical School Building, University Ave, Glasgow, Scotland. Electronic address: josephcannon@doctors.org.uk.
University of Glasgow Medical School, Wolfson Medical School Building, University Ave, Glasgow, Scotland; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.
University of Glasgow Medical School, Wolfson Medical School Building, University Ave, Glasgow, Scotland; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.
British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The French healthcare system is responsible for 8% of the national footprint. Achieving a net zero emissions scenario will require a 4-5 fold decrease of carbon emissions in the coming years. The carb...
Healthcare systems are responsible for 4%-5% of the emissions of greenhouse gases worldwide. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol divides carbon emissions into three scopes: scope 1 or direct emissions seconda...
To describe the environmental impact of health services....
A systematic review was conducted in the Medline, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Cochrane databases. Studies that focused their analysis on a functional healthcare unit and which included. This review wa...
The initial electronic search yielded a total of 4368 records. After the screening process according to the inclusion criteria, 13 studies were included in this review. The reviewed studies found that...
Most of the emissions corresponded to scope 3, which includes the indirect emission occurring as a consequence of the healthcare activity, as this scope includes a wider range of emission sources than...
Interventions should be carried out by the healthcare organizations responsible of Greenhouse Gas emissions, and also every single individual that integrates them should make changes. The use of evide...
This literature review highlights the impact that healthcare systems have on climate change and the importance of adopting and carrying out interventions to prevent its fast development....
This review adhered to PRISMA guideline. PRISMA 2020 is a guideline designed for systematic reviews of studies that analyse the effects of heath interventions, and aim is to help authors improve the r...
No Patient or Public Contribution....
Food consumption, which delivers fundamental energy and essential nutrients to human beings, is crucial for achieving a series of sustainable goals. Alongside rising population growth and living stand...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK) is aiming to be carbon net zero by 2040 to help limit the dangerous effects of climate change. Radiotherapy contributes to this with potent...
Activity data for 42 patients from within the breast IMRT and prostate VMAT pathways were collected. Data for 20 prostate patients was also collected from 3 other centres to enable cross centre compar...
The calculated carbon footprint for prostate and breast pre-COVID were 148 kgCO...
These initial findings highlight that the biggest contributor to the external beam radiotherapy carbon footprint was patient travel, which may motivate increased used of hypofractionation. Many assump...
Climate change has serious consequences for our wellbeing. Healthcare systems themselves contribute significantly to our total carbon footprint, of which emissions from surgical practice are a major c...
The carbon footprint of two laser centres operating within the United Kingdom were measured. The internationally recognised Greenhouse Gas Protocol was used as a guiding framework to classify sources ...
The total carbon footprints per day at each unit were 299.181 carbon dioxide equivalents (kgCo...
The carbon footprint of laser procedures was considerably less than the average surgical operation in the UK. This initial study measures the carbon footprint of a laser center in a clinical setting a...
Biomedical research is a significant contributor to the global carbon footprint. Practices are available that could make a difference; however, there are significant obstacles ahead, including a lack ...
To quantify the carbon footprint from a sample of pharma industry sponsored phase III trials. To develop an approach that can readily be applied to future trials by AstraZeneca and other trial sponsor...
Life cycle assessment including all the sources of carbon emissions associated with a completed, an ongoing and a planned clinical trial. The methodology followed the guidance on appraising the sustai...
Three multicentre late phase trials. One completed heart failure trial, one ongoing oncology trial and one asthma trial with the addition of devices to be representative of current practice....
The three trials had a total number of 7412 participants....
Total carbon emissions from each trial, the drivers of those emissions and the emissions per patient....
The total carbon footprint for the cardiovascular trial was calculated as 2498 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalents (CO...
We have shown that it is feasible to perform a retrospective life cycle assessment to appraise the carbon footprint of large clinical trials and confirmed that phase III trials result in significant e...
Given the demand for net-zero healthcare, the carbon footprint (CF) of healthcare systems has attracted increasing interest in research in recent years. This systematic review investigates the results...
Systematic review according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline....
PubMed, Web of Science, EconBiz, Scopus and Google Scholar were initially searched on 25 November 2019. Search updates in PubMed and Web of Science were considered until December 2023. The search was ...
We included original studies that calculated and reported the CF of one or more healthcare systems. Studies were excluded if the specific systems were not named or no information on the calculation me...
Within the initial search, two independent reviewers searched, screened and extracted information from the included studies. A checklist was developed to extract information on results and methodology...
15 studies were included. The mean ratio of healthcare system emissions to total national emissions was 4.9% (minimum 1.5%; maximum 9.8%), and CFs were growing in most countries. Hospital care led to ...
The results of this review show that healthcare systems contribute substantially to national carbon emissions, and hospitals are one of the main contributors in this regard. They also show that mitiga...
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the potential to reduce our carbon footprint especially by reducing travel. We aim to describe healthcare and health education services' contribution to the global c...
Healthcare-associated activity accounts for 10% of the United States' carbon dioxide (CO...
A retrospective review of all new evaluations for vertical sleeve gastrectomy (SG) or Roux-en Y gastric bypass (RYGB) from 2019 and 2021 was conducted. The 2019 year represents pre-pandemic, in-person...
There were 51 patients in the 2019 cohort and 55 patients in the 2021 cohort. In the 2019 in-person cohort, there was significantly more kg of estimated CO...
Implementation of telemedicine for bariatric preoperative evaluations reduced patient travel, carbon emissions, and improved attrition rate. We encourage bariatric providers to use telemedicine as we ...
