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Record W4310779486 · doi:10.32920/ihtp.v2i3.1698

Environmental stewardship in healthcare: Use of bio-plastics in surgery

2022· article· en· W4310779486 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Katie North

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Health Trends and Perspectives · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHealthcare and Environmental Waste Management
Canadian institutionsAthabasca University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIncinerationHealth careBusinessStewardship (theology)Waste managementHazardous wasteHealthcare industryPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Waste disposalEnvironmental planningEnvironmental scienceMedicineEngineeringEconomic growth

Abstract

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The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to a significant increase in the amount of waste generated by the healthcare industry. Due to a lack of ecologically conscious options and policies, much of the healthcare industries’ waste ends up in landfills or incinerated, contributing to landmass pollution and methane gas production and the release of toxic chemicals into the air. Environmental pollutants have been contributing to worsening climate conditions for decades, and the planet is facing a dire climate emergency in the coming years. Surgical departments produce a significant portion of healthcare-generated waste (HCGW) but can positively influence the health sector to pursue ecologically protective adaptations. Procedural and product changes to environmentally friendly products, like bio-plastics, can help limit plastic waste produced by surgical departments and reduce overall waste created by the industry. By integrating bio-plastic alternatives into hospital surgical practices, surgery departments can demonstrate how environmental stewardship can be prioritized within the healthcare industry.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.201
Threshold uncertainty score0.582

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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