Sustainable Healthcare Workshop

可持续医疗保健研讨会

• 批准号: 1818038
• 负责人: Cassandra Thiel
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: New York University Medical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818038&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainable; Healthcare; Workshop

This research development workshop will be held April 6-8, 2018 in New Haven, CT, focused on improving sustainability engineering methods and tools for use in healthcare delivery. This workshop will bring together experts from environmental and industrial engineering, materials science, clinical care, public health and policy, health care administration, and health economics, to identify knowledge gaps and develop a strategic action plan to fill these gaps in addressing one of the grand challenges of healthcare environmental sustainability: balancing patient safety with waste reduction and pollution prevention. An aim is to discover synergies that arise from combining different approaches and various perspectives to address this challenge. The workshop will describe the scope of evidence-based information, identify gaps, and development research priorities in order to produce information/tools to support clinicians/healthcare administrators in efforts to reduce health care pollution and waste. The workshop intends to develop a strategic action plan for sustainability in healthcare which identifies critical research needs and the obstacles and opportunities in safely addressing the resource consumption of medical and clinical care. The impetus for this workshop lies in the excessive waste and resource use of current US healthcare services. Through the systems lens provided by sustainability engineering, researchers have begun to quantify material use and environmental emissions from medicine, yet the broadening of these quantification studies and their translation into clinical practice have been slow in developing. This workshop will (1) bring together interdisciplinary researchers to help reinforce ongoing and forge new research connections to tackle healthcare sustainability in an actionable way, and (2) develop strategies to develop, test, and implement clinically-relevant sustainability interventions, so that the actual footprint and resource-use of medicine will be minimized.

该研究开发研讨会将于2018年4月6日至8日在康涅狄格州纽黑文举行，重点关注改进用于医疗保健提供的可持续发展工程方法和工具。本次研讨会将汇集来自环境和工业工程，材料科学，临床护理，公共卫生和政策，医疗保健管理和卫生经济学的专家，以确定知识差距，并制定战略行动计划，以填补这些差距，解决医疗保健环境可持续性的重大挑战之一：平衡患者安全与废物减少和污染预防。目的是发现通过结合不同的方法和各种观点来应对这一挑战所产生的协同作用。该研讨会将描述循证信息的范围，确定差距和发展研究的优先事项，以产生信息/工具，以支持临床医生/医疗管理人员努力减少医疗污染和浪费。该研讨会旨在制定一项医疗保健可持续发展战略行动计划，确定关键的研究需求以及安全解决医疗和临床护理资源消耗的障碍和机会。本次研讨会的动力在于当前美国医疗服务的过度浪费和资源使用。通过可持续性工程提供的系统透镜，研究人员已经开始量化药物的材料使用和环境排放，但这些量化研究的扩展及其转化为临床实践的发展缓慢。本次研讨会将（1）汇集跨学科的研究人员，以帮助加强正在进行的研究并建立新的研究联系，以可行的方式解决医疗保健的可持续性问题，以及（2）制定战略，以开发，测试和实施临床相关的可持续性干预措施，以便最大限度地减少药物的实际足迹和资源使用。