Systematic Review of Hospital Contributions to Global Warming, 2000-2024

A scoping systematic review of 184 studies published between January 2000 and December 2024, analyzing how hospitals and clinical services contribute to global warming. The review, authored by Waldo Merino-Urrutia and sourced from PubMed, Scopus, and Embase, groups findings into areas like anesthetic technique, surgical procedures, and waste management. It found the most publications related to anesthesiology, devices, and the operating room.

Use Cases

• Identify high-emission clinical areas for targeted interventions based on the review's grouping of studies.
• Benchmark hospital greenhouse gas emissions against published literature from 2000-2024.
• Inform the design of sustainability studies that incorporate economic aspects and clinical effectiveness, a gap noted in the review.

Strengths

• Systematic search across three major databases (PubMed, Scopus, Embase) yielded 905 initial results.
• Clear temporal coverage from January 2000 to December 2024.
• Inclusion of 184 studies grouped into specific clinical and operational areas.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 14.6 KB document summarizing findings, not the raw underlying data from the 184 studies.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the review text.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Scoping systematic review following PRISMA guidelines, with three authors independently selecting and extracting data.

Time Range

January 2000 to December 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 04:19:25; freshness should be verified.