Measuring environmentally sustainable health care: a scoping review.

Work to reduce environmental pollution from the health system is hampered by an absence of consensus on the definition of environmentally sustainable health care and the relevant measurement needed. This scoping review aims to encourage standardisation across sustainability efforts by examining how environmentally sustainable health care is defined and measured in current literature. We conducted a scoping review to identify candidate publications that included either a definition or description of environmentally sustainable health care or a measurement of the impact of health care on the environment.

Clinician Knowledge and Attitudes About Climate Change and Health After a Quality Incentive Program.

Importance: Climate change is a fundamental threat to human health, and industries, including health care, must assess their respective contribution to this crisis.

Objective: To assess the change in knowledge of clinicians who completed a quality incentive program (QIP) measure on climate change and health care sustainability and to examine clinician attitudes toward climate change and their perception of clinical and individual relevance.

Design, Setting, And Participants: The participants in this survey study included employed physicians and psychologists who were part of a hospital physician organization in an academic medical center (AMC) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Reusable scrub caps are cost-effective and help reduce the climate footprint of surgery.

Background: As the US healthcare sector contributes to 5-10% of national CO emissions, with a substantial contribution from surgical services, a collective effort is important to minimize the climate footprint of surgery. Solid plastic waste generated from single-use items in operating rooms is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. To address this problem, we implemented a pilot study to replace single-use scrub caps with reusable caps.