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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2025

Greening Infection Prevention and Control: Multifaceted Approaches to a Sustainable Future.

Pamela S Lee, Irene Frantzis, Shira R Abeles

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Decreasing single-use plastic within the pneumatic tube system during medication transport.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pamela S LeeDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9058-529X
Irene FrantzisDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Shira R AbelesDivision of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection prevention and control, or IP&C, is a critical stakeholder in advancing environmental sustainability in health care. IP&C activities seek to ensure safety of processes in health care from an infection perspective, but how these are performed can drive substantial waste and pollution. There are certain IP&C measures that can, without compromising safety or efficiency, be adapted to more environmentally friendly practices and have a high impact benefit to sustainability without affecting patient outcomes. Moreover, IP&C practice stands to be significantly altered by climate change and pollution. Here, we describe the complex interdependence between sustainability, climate change, and IP&C, and opportunities for IP&C to be at the leading edge of optimizing healthcare's environmental footprint.

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climate changeenvironmental sustainabilityhospital epidemiologyinfection prevention and controlpollution

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PMID39958523
PMCPMC11825990

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