Performing a Waste Audit
In this episode, we discuss why waste audits are useful. We review the planning and the logistics involved with conducting a hospital waste audit. Our guests include hospitalists that led a 24-hour waste audit on a 20-bed inpatient unit at MGH, and the director of the Environmental Services Department at MGH.
For more information on this podcast, our guests, and additional resources go to: https://www.massgeneral.org/environment-and-health/healthcaresos
In this episode, we discuss why waste audits are useful. We review the planning and the logistics involved with conducting a hospital waste audit. Our guests include hospitalists that led a 24-hour waste audit on a 20-bed inpatient unit at MGH, and the director of the Environmental Services Department at MGH.
For more information on this podcast, our guests, and additional resources go to: https://www.massgeneral.org/environment-and-health/healthcaresos
- waste audit
- red bag waste
- hospital
- inpatient
- sustainability
- health care
- climate change
- environment
- Mewaldt and TigerDoc79
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Grand Rounds Webinar: Inpatient Medicine Waste Audit and the Plastic Pandemic
Recording link: https://www.massgeneral.org/environment-and-health/news-and-events/webinar-events
Dumpster Diving in the Emergency Department: Quantity and Characteristics of Waste at a Level 1 Trauma Center: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514403/
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