Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review

T Greenhalgh, CR MacIntyre, MG Baker… - Clinical microbiology …, 2024‏ - journals.asm.org
This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—
and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Waste management and the perspective of a green hospital—a systematic narrative review

S Lattanzio, P Stefanizzi, M D'ambrosio… - International Journal of …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The concept of a “green hospital” is used in reference to a hospital that includes the
environment as part of its quality services and one that pays attention to the sustainable …

Piezoelectric nanofiber membrane for reusable, stable, and highly functional face mask filter with long‐term biodegradability

TT Le, EJ Curry, T Vinikoor, R Das, Y Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic and airborne particulate matter (PM)
pollution has led to remarkably high demand for face masks. However, conventional …

A spatiotemporal machine learning approach to forecasting COVID-19 incidence at the county level in the USA

B Lucas, B Vahedi, M Karimzadeh - … Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2023‏ - Springer
With COVID-19 affecting every country globally and changing everyday life, the ability to
forecast the spread of the disease is more important than any previous epidemic. The …

Individuals with hearing impairment/deafness during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a rapid review on communication challenges and strategies

I Mansutti, I Achil, C Rosa Gastaldo… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives This study aimed (a) to identify the communication issues and problems
faced by individuals with hearing impairment (HI)/deafness during the COVID‐19 pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Inclusion of environmental spillovers in applied economic evaluations of healthcare products

C Desterbecq, S Tubeuf - Value in Health, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Objectives Climate change and environmental factors have an impact on human health and
the ecosystem. The healthcare sector is responsible for substantial environmental pollution …

Switching from disposable to reusable PPE

R Bromley-Dulfano, J Chan, N Jain, J Marvel - bmj, 2024‏ - bmj.com
• Reusable PPE preserves safety, while offering less severe environmental consequences
and reducing costs. Successful deployments of reusable gowns at large US medical centres …

Improving medical textiles to create a greener operating theatre

H Morris, R Murray - The Journal of The Textile Institute, 2025‏ - Taylor & Francis
By generating almost 5% of the world's carbon emissions, healthcare, if it were a country,
would be the world's fifth biggest polluter and for the UK in 2017, the health sector alone was …

Patient and health care worker perceptions of communication and ability to identify emotion when wearing standard and transparent masks

JN Chu, JE Collins, TT Chen, PR Chai… - JAMA network …, 2021‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Adoption of mask wearing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic alters daily
communication. Objective To assess communication barriers associated with mask wearing …

The environmental impact and sustainability of infection control practices: a systematic sco** review

O Lim, WY Chua, A Wong, RR Ling, HC Chan… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2024‏ - Springer
Infection prevention and control (IPC) programs form the basis of minimizing spread of
pathogens in the healthcare setting and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified the …