Advancing environmental sustainability in health care: evaluating and prioritising sustainability measures for quality reporting and improvement
医療における環境持続可能性の推進：品質報告と改善のための持続可能性指標の評価と優先順位付け (AI 翻訳)
Michael Padget, Gregg Furie, Dionne Kringos, Patrick S. Romano, Jonathan E. Slutzman
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
本論文は、医療機関の環境持続可能性を評価するための指標を、品質測定基準に基づいて体系的に評価した初の研究である。温室効果ガス排出量、水使用量、エネルギー使用量、旅行、固形廃棄物の6つの指標を評価し、スコープ1・2排出量、水使用量、固形廃棄物を調整済み患者日数で標準化した最小セットを提案している。
English
This paper is the first to systematically evaluate environmental sustainability measures for healthcare using quality measurement criteria. Six measures were assessed, and a minimum set of greenhouse gas emissions (scopes 1 and 2), water use, and solid waste, standardized by adjusted patient-days, is proposed for integration into quality reporting frameworks.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本の医療機関は、SSBJ開示や投資家対応において環境情報の開示が求められる中、本提案は医療分野特有の指標標準化に寄与する。また、カーボンニュートラル宣言を行う医療機関が増える中、実践的な指標を提供する。
In the global GX context
This paper provides a framework for integrating environmental measures into healthcare quality reporting, aligning with global trends like ISSB standards and CSRD. It offers a practical pathway for healthcare systems to disclose environmental performance consistently, supporting transition finance and stakeholder expectations.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a novel framework for evaluating environmental measures in healthcare, useful for further research on sustainability metrics.
🏢実務担当者:Offers a concrete set of measures for healthcare facilities to adopt in sustainability reporting and quality improvement.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights the need for standardized environmental measures in healthcare regulation and quality frameworks.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Achieving environmentally sustainable health systems represents a crucial objective for both planetary and human health. Integrating environmental measures into existing health-care quality measurement and improvement frameworks can greatly advance sustainability efforts. However, current environmental measures have not been evaluated for this purpose. In this Personal View, we evaluate commonly reported measures of environmentally sustainable health care against standard criteria and propose a minimum set of standard environmental sustainability measures compatible with quality reporting standards. Common measures of environmental sustainability were identified at the hospital and health-facility level through a literature review. We created generic, representative measures based on the environmental domain (eg, greenhouse gases, energy) and evaluated them using quality measure criteria established by the Partnership for Quality Measurement. Six generic measures were created and evaluated across the domains of greenhouse gas emissions, water use, energy use, travel, and solid waste. Although all six measures were considered of high importance, two (distance travelled by patients and staff and mass of total [scopes 1, 2, and 3] carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions per year) showed weaknesses in scientific acceptability and feasibility, and one (energy consumed per year) was highly correlated with and less informative than the others. No measures evaluated included a consistent method for standardisation. The proposed minimum set comprises measures of greenhouse gas emissions (scopes 1 and 2), water use, and solid waste production, standardised by adjusted patient-days. To our knowledge, this work presents the first proposed list of environmental measures for use in quality reporting and a pathway for integrating environmental sustainability measures into existing quality measurement frameworks.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2026.101501first seen 2026-08-06 05:05:35
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