ReviewIranian journal of public health2020
Health Care Waste Management Improvement Interventions Specifications and Results: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Towards environmentally sustainable surgery: a comparison of robotic surgery with other approaches.Updates in surgery · 2026Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practice by health professionals toward medical and pharmaceutical waste management: a cross-sectional study of El-idrissi hospital, Kenitra, Morocco.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- The Green Maternity project: A midwife-led initiative to promote correct waste segregation on an Australian postnatal ward.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Segregation and Recycling in the Operating Room. An Intervention to Accelerate the Decarbonisation Process in the Health Sector.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Article
- Regulated Medical Waste Reduction in the Dermatology Clinic.Dermatology and therapy · 2024Article
- Improving the hospital waste management at the Farabi hospital in Malekan -Iran: An action research study.Heliyon · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundGiven the importance of proper management of Health Care Waste Management (HCWM), comprehensive information on interventions in this field is necessary. Therefore, we aimed to systematically review and meta-analysis of characteristics and results of interventions in the field of HCWM.
methodsThe required data were gathered through searching the keywords such as waste management, biomedical waste, hospitals waste, health care waste, infectious waste, medical waste, Waste Disposal Facilities, Garbage, Waste Disposal Facilities, Hazardous Waste Sites in PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Google scholar, Cochrane library, Science Direct, web of knowledge, SID and MagIran and hand searching in journals, reference by reference, and search in Gray literatures between 2000 and 2019. CMA software: 2 (Comprehensive Meta-Analysis) was used to perform the meta-analysis.
resultsTwenty-seven interventions were evaluated. Most of the studies were conducted after 2010, in the form of pre and post study, without control group, and in hospital. Interventions were divided into two categories: educational interventions (19 studies) and multifaceted managerial interventions (8 studies). The most studied outcome (in 11 studies) was KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice). The mean standard difference of interventions on KAP was estimated 3.04 (2.54-3.54) which was significant statistically (
conclusionDespite positive effect of interventions, due to the methodological deficiencies of published studies and high heterogeneity in results of studies, caution should be exercised in interpreting and using the results of the studies.
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