Sustainable Healthcare Workshop

本次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，重点是改进医疗保健服务中使用的可持续性工程方法和工具。该研讨会将汇集来自环境与工业工程、材料科学、临床护理、公共卫生与政策、医疗保健管理和健康经济学的专家，以确定知识差距并制定战略行动计划，以填补这些差距，以应对医疗保健环境可持续性的重大挑战之一：平衡患者安全与减少废物和防止污染。其目的是发现通过结合不同的方法和不同的视角来应对这一挑战所产生的协同效应。研讨会将介绍循证信息的范围、确定差距和开发研究优先事项，以便产生信息/工具，支持临床医生/医疗保健管理人员努力减少医疗保健污染和浪费。研讨会旨在制定医疗保健可持续性的战略行动计划，确定关键的研究需求以及在安全解决医疗和临床护理资源消耗方面的障碍和机会。这个研讨会的推动力在于当前美国医疗服务的过度浪费和资源利用。通过可持续发展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和临床实践的转化一直进展缓慢。本次研讨会将(1)将跨学科研究人员聚集在一起，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可持续性问题，以及(2)制定战略，开发、测试和实施与临床相关的可持续性干预措施，以便将药物的实际足迹和资源使用降至最低。

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.