Workshop:Energy/Materials Dimensions of Engineering in Evidence-Based Healthcare

医疗保健机构提供服务，以实现优质的医疗结果。 这些活动联合收割机利用能源和材料，对经济、社会效益和环境产生重大影响。 这些影响的服务质量/医疗结果的关系是一个重要的研究需要。 本次研讨会的研究重点是将能源和材料与个人医疗服务联系起来的原则，作为实际服务决策者（例如，操作成像服务，选择透析程序等）的关键环节。 重点不是作为经济学家，而是更关注能源（和能源效应），包括废物流在内的材料生命周期和医疗结果。 目标是更好地理解这些关系（不仅仅是成本），作为寻求可持续性改进的更基本结构。研讨会有一个广泛的探索性议程，以鼓励跨学科的曝光。 目标是工程设计或技术（例如成像，透析，供应链，建筑环境）的能量和质量流的早期信息，因为这些信息会影响医疗服务和最终的医疗结果。 与类似循证医学发展的研讨会交流将为研讨会增添一个重要的层面。 一般格式将涉及30分钟的论文和广泛的讨论围绕四个过度的医疗保健主题：医疗保健和环境，医疗保健和比较有效性研究，技术改善的结果， 流程和系统设计，以改善成果。 一个确定的小型工作组将综合研讨会的讨论，并为能量/质量流信息的发展制定路线图。 为期两天的研讨会由Janet Twomey教授（janet. twomey@www.example.com）和Michael Overcash教授（mrovercash@earthlink.net）组织。wichita.edu

Healthcare facilities provide services to achieve quality medical outcomes. These activities combine to utilize energy and materials with a significant impact on economics, social effects, and the environment. The relationship of these impacts to quality of service/medical outcomes is a substantial research need. The research featured in this workshop addresses the principles of relating energy and materials to individual healthcare services as a critical link to the actual services decision-makers (e.g. those operating the imaging services, selecting dialysis procedures, etc). The emphasis is not as economists, but a larger focus on energy (and energy effects), materials life cycles including waste streams, and medical outcomes. The goal is to better understand these relations (not just costs) as a more fundamental structure to seek sustainability improvements. The workshop has a broad and exploratory agenda to encourage cross-discipline exposure. The goal is early information regarding the energy and mass flow for engineering design or technologies (e.g. imaging, dialysis, supply chain, the built environment) as these impact on healthcare services and ultimately medical outcomes. The workshop exchange with similar evidence-based medical developments will add a vital dimension to the workshop. The general format will involve 30 minute papers and extensive discussion around four over-arching healthcare themes: healthcare and the environment, healthcare and comparative effectiveness research, technology for improved outcomes, and processes and systems design for improved outcomes. A small identified working group will synthesize workshop discussion and develop a roadmap for the development of energy/mass flow information. The two day workshop is organized by Professors Janet Twomey (janet.twomey@wichita.edu) and Michael Overcash (mrovercash@earthlink.net).