Health Care Waste Management Improvement Interventions Specifications and Results: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Ali ASHTARI
,
Jafar SADEGH TABRIZI
,
Ramin REZAPOUR
,
Mohammad RASHIDIAN MALEKI
,
Saber AZAMI-AGHDASH
Abstract
Background: Given the importance of proper management of Health Care Waste Management (HCWM), comprehensive information on interventions in this field is necessary. Therefore, we aimed to systematically review and meta-analysis of characteristics and results of interventions in the field of HCWM.
Methods: The required data were gathered through searching the keywords such as waste management, biomedical waste, hospitals waste, health care waste, infectious waste, medical waste, Waste Disposal Facilities, Garbage, Waste Disposal Facilities, Hazardous Waste Sites in PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Google scholar, Cochrane library, Science Direct, web of knowledge, SID and MagIran and hand searching in journals, reference by reference, and search in Gray literatures between 2000 and 2019. CMA software: 2 (Comprehensive Meta-Analysis) was used to perform the meta-analysis.
Results: Twenty-seven interventions were evaluated. Most of the studies were conducted after 2010, in the form of pre and post study, without control group, and in hospital. Interventions were divided into two categories: educational interventions (19 studies) and multifaceted managerial interventions (8 studies). The most studied outcome (in 11 studies) was KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice). The mean standard difference of interventions on KAP was estimated 3.04 (2.54–3.54) which was significant statistically (P<0.05). Also, interventions were considerably effective in improving the indicators of waste production amount, waste management costs and overall waste management performance.
Conclusion: Despite positive effect of interventions, due to the methodological deficiencies of published studies and high heterogeneity in results of studies, caution should be exercised in interpreting and using the results of the studies.
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2. Eker HH, Bilgili MS, Sekman E, et al (2010). Evaluation of the regulation changes in medical waste management in Turkey. Waste Manag Res, 28(11):1034-8.
3. Al-Momani H, Obaidat M, Khazaleh A, et al (2019). Review of medical waste management in Jordanian health care organisations. Br J Healthc Manag, 25(8):1-8.
4. Eren E, Tuzkaya UR (2019). Occupational health and safety-oriented medical waste management: A case study of Istanbul. Waste Manag Res, 37(9):876-884.
5. Gao Q, Shi Y, Mo D, et al (2018). Medical waste management in three areas of rural China. PLoS One, 13(7):e0200889.
6. Olaniyi FC, Ogola JS, Tshitangano TG (2019). Efficiency of Health Care Risk Waste Management in Rural Healthcare Facilities of South Africa: An Assessment of Selected Facilities in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 16(12):2199.
7. Acharya A, Gokhale VA, Joshi D (2014). Impact of biomedical waste on city environment: Case study of Pune, India. J Appl Chem,6(6):21-7.
8. Bdour A, Altrabsheh B, Hadadin N, et al (2007). Assessment of medical wastes management practice: a case study of the northern part of Jordan. Waste Manag, 27(6):746-59.
9. Chaerul M, Tanaka M, Shekdar AV (2008). A system dynamics approach for hospital waste management. Waste Manag, 28(2):442-9.
10. Yizengaw E, Getahun T, Geta M, et al (2018). Sero-prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection and associated factors among health care workers and medical waste handlers in primary hospitals of North-west Ethiopia. BMC Res Notes, 11(1):437.
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12. Mastorakis NE, Bulucea CA, Oprea TA, et al (2010). Environmental and health risks associated with biomedical waste management. Develop Energy Environ Economics, 2010:287-94.
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14. Bai VR, Vanitha G, Zainal Ariff AR (2013). Effective hospital waste classification to overcome occupational health issues and reduce waste disposal cost. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 34(11):1234-1235.
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42. Win E, Saw Y, Oo K, et al (2019). Healthcare waste management at primary health centres in Mon State, Myanmar: The comparisons between hospital and non-hospital type primary health centres. Nagoya J Med Sci, 81:81-91.
43. Sadeghi H, Fazlzadeh M, Hazrati S, et al (2012). Survey of waste management practices at health centers of Ardebil City. J Health, 2(4):17-27.
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46. Rashidian A, Alinia C, Majdzadeh R (2015). Cost-effectiveness analysis of health care waste treatment facilities in iran hospitals; a provider perspective. Iran J Public Health, 44(3):352-60.
47. Lee BK, Ellenbecker MJ, Moure-Ersaso R (2004). Alternatives for treatment and disposal cost reduction of regulated medical wastes. Waste Manag, 24(2):143-51.
48. Vaccari M, Tudor T, Perteghella A (2018). Costs associated with the management of waste from healthcare facilities: An analysis at national and site level. Waste Manag Res, 36(1):39-47.
49. Soares SR, Finotti AR, Prudêncio da Silva V, et al (2013). Applications of life cycle assessment and cost analysis in health care waste management. Waste Manag, 33(1):175-83.
50. D'Souza BC, Seetharam AM, Chandrasekaran V, et al (2017). Comparative analysis of cost of biomedical waste management across varying bed strengths in rural India. Int J Healthc Manag, 11(1):1-6.
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ASHTARI A, SADEGH TABRIZI J, REZAPOUR R, RASHIDIAN MALEKI M, AZAMI-AGHDASH S. Health Care Waste Management Improvement Interventions Specifications and Results: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Iran J Public Health. 2020;49(9):1611-1621.
