ReviewRisk management and healthcare policy2024
Risk Management for Whole-Process Safe Disposal of Medical Waste: Progress and Challenges.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Deploying artificial intelligence for occupational and environmental health in waste management: a systematic review.International journal of public health · 2026Pooled it
- Sustainable Management of Medical Waste in Surgical Units: Operational Challenges and Policy Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- 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
- Advancing circular economy practices in radiography: a narrative review of sustainable medical imaging.Translational cancer research · 2025Review
- Healthcare Waste Toxicity: From Human Exposure to Toxic Mechanisms and Management Strategies.Journal of xenobiotics · 2025Review
- Pentavalent rotavirus vaccine effectiveness among children in Shenzhen, China: A population-based test-negative design with directed acyclic graphs bias adjustment.Infectious medicine · 2025Article
- Study on the relationship between medical staff's knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding medical waste classification and personality traits.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Assessment of Medical Waste Segregation, Disposal Practices for Infectious and Sharps Waste in Healthcare Facilities in Somalia: Implications for Infection Prevention and Control.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- Disposal practice and determinants of unused medicines among the general public in Gondar City, Northwest Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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5 authors.
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Abstract
Over the past decade, the global outbreaks of SARS, influenza A (H1N1), COVID-19, and other major infectious diseases have exposed the insufficient capacity for emergency disposal of medical waste in numerous countries and regions. Particularly during epidemics of major infectious diseases, medical waste exhibits new characteristics such as accelerated growth rate, heightened risk level, and more stringent disposal requirements. Consequently, there is an urgent need for advanced theoretical approaches that can perceive, predict, evaluate, and control risks associated with safe disposal throughout the entire process in a timely, accurate, efficient, and comprehensive manner. This article provides a systematic review of relevant research on collection, storage, transportation, and disposal of medical waste throughout its entirety to illustrate the current state of safe disposal practices. Building upon this foundation and leveraging emerging information technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), we deeply contemplate future research directions with an aim to minimize risks across all stages of medical waste disposal while offering valuable references and decision support to further advance safe disposal practices.
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