Health Care Waste Management Improvement Interventions Specifications and Results: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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. The required d...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Iranian journal of public health 2020-09, Vol.49 (9), p.1611-1621
Main Authors: Ashtari, Ali, Sadegh Tabrizi, Jafar, Rezapour, Ramin, Rashidian Maleki, Mohammad, Azami-Aghdash, Saber
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Critical analysis
Hazardous waste sites
Hazardous wastes
Health care
Health care waste management
Heterogeneity
Infectious wastes
Interventions
Medical wastes
Meta-analysis
Review
Searching
Statistical analysis
Systematic review
Waste disposal
Waste disposal sites
Waste management
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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. 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. 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 (
ISSN:2251-6085
2251-6093
DOI:10.18502/ijph.v49i9.4074