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Medical Waste

AORN Journal, 1990
When addressing the impact of medical waste management and regulatory controls on the health care industry, it is important to remember that as long as modern medicine continues to maintain and sustain its current quality of life and wellness standards, industry will continue to generate various byproducts that have adverse effects on both people and ...
M F, Fay, W C, Beck, J M, Fay, M K, Kessinger   +3 more
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Evaluation of i.v. medication waste

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2012
As hospitals nationwide face budget restrictions and demands for decreased costs, pharmacy departments are increasingly pressured to discover new ways to save money. Many avenues have been explored, including enhanced formulary management, use of optimal vial sizes and multidose vials, and ...
Timothy D, Kerr, Laura A, Romine
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Don’t Waste the Medical Waste: Reducing Improperly Classified Hazardous Waste in a Medical Facility

Journal of Emerging Investigators, 2018
Hospitals in the United States generate over one million tons of waste each year, approximately a quarter of which is classified as hazardous medical waste. There are environmental, infectious, and financial burdens associated with this waste, and those burdens increase significantly when the waste is hazardous.
Danny Hemani, Christine M Hostetter MA MT, Michelle Bagley   +2 more
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Medical Waste: A Minimal Hazard

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1991
Healthcare providers need to be aware of the facts regarding the environmental impact of regulated medical wastes and be prepared to voice concern over unnecessary and costly regulations. The wash-ups of waste, a small percentage of which was medical waste, on the beaches on New York and New Jersey in the summers of 1987 and 1988 prompted an immediate ...
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MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE WORKERS

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1986
The efforts to clean up hazardous waste disposal sites have led to an increasing number of workers involved in these activities. Industrial hygiene surveys have demonstrated that these workers are potentially exposed to low levels of multiple contaminants during the work day and to high levels of some contaminants for very short time periods.
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Medical waste management

2019
This chapter on medical waste management outlines the principles of waste management as essential determinants of health, quality of life, and dignity. It describes the principles of healthcare waste management and based on extensive implementation experience, offers a pragmatic adaptation of approaches most suitable for low-income countries.
Joos Van den Noortgate, Rafael Van den Bergh, Peter Maes   +2 more
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Performance assessment of a novel medical-waste-to-energy design based on plasma gasification and integrated with a municipal solid waste incineration plant

Energy, 2022
Heng Chen, Gang Xu
exaly  

What medical waste management system may cope With COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Wuhan

Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2021
Chang Chen, Ran Fang, Zhen Wang
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A Review of Medical Waste Management Systems in the Republic of Korea for Hospital and Medical Waste Generated from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sustainability, 2022
Cheol-Woo Yoon, Tae-Wan Jeon
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Environmental challenges from the increasing medical waste since SARS outbreak

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021
Yujun Wei, Meng Cui, Qingjun Guo
exaly