Estimating the environmental impact of disposable endoscopic equipment and endoscopes

Green endoscopy: a call for sustainability in the midst of COVID-19

(2020) James B Maurice et al.   Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Environmental Impact of Endoscopy

(2020) Swapna Gayam   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Transforming The Medical Device Industry: Road Map To A Circular Economy

(2020) Andrea J. MacNeill et al.   HEALTH AFFAIRS

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

(2020) Emily Elhacham et al.   NATURE

The impact on life cycle carbon footprint of converting from disposable to reusable sharps containers in a large US hospital geographically distant from manufacturing and processing facilities

(2019) Brett McPherson et al.   PeerJ

International comparison of health care carbon footprints

(2019) Peter-Paul Pichler et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Duodenoscope-associated infections: a review

(2019) Gheorghe G. Balan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

ERCP-related adverse events: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Guideline

(2019) Jean-Marc Dumonceau et al.   ENDOSCOPY

Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions

(2018) Matthew J. Eckelman et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Life cycle environmental emissions and health damages from the Canadian healthcare system: An economic-environmental-epidemiological analysis

(2018) Matthew J. Eckelman et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Reprocessing of flexible endoscopes and endoscopic accessories used in gastrointestinal endoscopy: Position Statement of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and European Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (ESGENA) – Update 2018

(2018) Ulrike Beilenhoff et al.   ENDOSCOPY

Burden and Cost of Gastrointestinal, Liver, and Pancreatic Diseases in the United States: Update 2018

(2018) Anne F. Peery et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Cataract surgery and environmental sustainability: Waste and lifecycle assessment of phacoemulsification at a private healthcare facility

(2017) Cassandra L. Thiel et al.   JOURNAL OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY

Costs associated with the management of waste from healthcare facilities: An analysis at national and site level

(2017) Mentore Vaccari et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH

Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health

(2016) Matthew J. Eckelman et al.   PLoS One

Environmental Impacts of Surgical Procedures: Life Cycle Assessment of Hysterectomy in the United States

(2015) Cassandra L. Thiel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Superbugs on Duodenoscopes: the Challenge of Cleaning and Disinfection of Reusable Devices

(2015) Romney M. Humphries et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Repeated Upper Endoscopy in the Medicare Population

(2014) Heiko Pohl et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

ASGE's assessment of competency in endoscopy evaluation tools for colonoscopy and EGD

(2014) Gerald M. Fried et al.   GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY

Transmission of Infection by Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Bronchoscopy

(2013) J. Kovaleva et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Overuse of Screening Colonoscopy in the Medicare Population

(2011) James S. Goodwin   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The Incidence and Cost of Unexpected Hospital Use After Scheduled Outpatient Endoscopy

(2010) Daniel A. Leffler et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Reducing Medical Waste

(2010) Julie Conrardy et al.   AORN JOURNAL

Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment

(2009) Göran Finnveden et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT