Sustainable Healthcare Facilities: A Scoping Review

Li, Yongkui; Pan, Xiyu; Han, Yilong; Taylor, John E.

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0002170

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“…Even though several systematic literature reviews on 'sustainability and healthcare' have been conducted (namely Lennox et al, 2018Lennox et al, , 2020Li et al, 2021;McGain & Naylor, 2014;Naylor & Appleby, 2013), this is the first review that has consolidated sustain- In particular, the study revealed promising areas of research concerning the following aims: more robust and comprehensive theoretical underpinning and advancement, better context-specific understandings, and enhanced methodological rigor; as well as suggested some novel concepts in sustainability practices that can be explored further with their respect to their impact on healthcare performance. These assertions may serve as the basis for subsequent research efforts, thereby significantly deepening and extending this research domain.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…They comprehensively provided a knowledge base of sustainability across healthcare settings. Similarly, Li et al (2021) conducted a scoping review and a consultation process in which healthcare facility design and operations experts were interviewed to validate and complement the results. However, they did not explicitly follow any framework‐based approach to map the literature on sustainability and healthcare.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mapping sustainability practices in the healthcare sector: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Rahat,

Sahni,

Nasim

2023

Int J Consumer Studies

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Sustainable healthcare means providing affordable, quality medical care without causing undue environmental damage, which is critical for a world just emerging from a debilitating pandemic. This article contends that it is now an opportune time to map the existing knowledge to guide future sustainability research in healthcare. Therefore, this article aims to systematically review and comprehensively analyse the extant literature on sustainability practices in healthcare organizations and propose future research directions based on gaps in the literature. A corpus of 79 articles sourced from five databases and published between 1995 and 2022 was identified for an in‐depth review. Following a framework‐based systematic literature review, this article offers an organized, retrospective view of the performance using antecedents, decisions, and outcomes (ADO) and Theories–Contexts–Methods (TCM) integrated framework. These frameworks are used to evaluate and understand sustainability practices in the healthcare sector. Additionally, the article shows the thematic evolution of sustainability research in healthcare with the help of five clusters. While the systematic literature review results highlight the large theoretical base, it also reveals the lack of consensus on defining sustainability. The analysis of 79 articles yielded six valuable categories of antecedents with 27 constructs, five categories of decisions with 11 constructs, and two categories of outcomes with 15 constructs. Results also reveal a lack of consensus regarding the influence of sustainability practices on organizational performance across the three sustainability pillars (social, environmental, and economic dimensions). The present review has implications for healthcare service delivery systems and policymakers to help them redesign their services to promote sustainable development goals. Before concluding the article, knowledge gaps and future research directions are structured using the ADO‐TCM framework through pertinent ideas for sustainability research in healthcare organizations.

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confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping sustainability practices in the healthcare sector: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Rahat,

Sahni,

Nasim

2023

Int J Consumer Studies

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“…This method was selected since it is a powerful technique for collecting and organizing information and examining trends and patterns in documents (Krippendorff, 2013). In addition, review papers commonly employ content analysis to extract learnings from previously published work and facilitate critical comparisons in multiple fields including engineering (Li et al, 2021;Pan et al, 2022).…”

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A critical review and analysis of decision-support processes and tools for project delivery method selection

Demetracopoulou

O’Brien

Khwaja³

et al. 2022

ECAM

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PurposeOver the last three decades, construction projects have increasingly been delivered through alternative delivery methods. As a result, many owners have a range of delivery methods to choose from and aim to use the right one for each of their projects. Researchers have developed several tools and decision-support processes to facilitate this selection procedure. The purpose of this study is to review and discuss differences and common themes across selection tools developed by academic researchers and project owners.Design/methodology/approachThe study reviews prominent selection processes and tools used for infrastructure projects by conducting an in-depth literature review and using the content analysis method to elicit findings on the methodologies and criteria presented in the literature.FindingsThis study presents three principal findings. First, findings show three common themes emerge within the selection criteria—characteristics, goals and risks. Second, while academic studies most commonly suggest employing multi-attribute analysis, this study reveals that, in practice, selection tools most frequently employ a staged or gated evaluation based on the type of criteria and their importance to the decision. Finally, this review further highlights the importance of institutional context in decision-making.Originality/valueThis work contributes to the body of knowledge by providing guidance to practitioners and opening new directions for researchers around the way selection criteria are categorized in the relevant literature and the institutional context considerations when structuring or evaluating a selection process or tool.

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“…The green concept is an inevitable requirement of building sectors to retain sustainable development [8,9]. A green building has higher goals in promoting sustainability, such as reducing energy and carbon emission and improving indoor comfort [10].…”

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BIM-Based Green Hospital Building Performance Pre-Evaluation: A Case Study

Zhan

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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With ecological problems and energy crises intensifying today, greening is essential to sustainable development. Compared with other types of buildings, hospital buildings account for a relatively larger proportion of building energy consumption. In order to realize the rapid cycle optimization of a green hospital project in the design stage and improve the green grade of the building, a pre-evaluation Building Information Model (BIM) of green hospital building performance was established in this study. Firstly, the literature review and expert consultation established the building performance pre-evaluation index system for green hospitals. Then, BIM technology is taken to extract data needed for building a performance pre-evaluation system, and the Cloud Model and the Matter–Element Extension Theory are used to build models. The final green grade calculation is realized in MATLAB. Finally, the Maluan Bay Hospital is taken as an example to test the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed model. The results show that the green hospital building performance pre-evaluation model has advantages of simulation, cyclic optimization and fuzzy quantification, which can effectively guide the design and construction of a green hospital.

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Sustainable Healthcare Facilities: A Scoping Review

Cited by 9 publications

References 118 publications

Mapping sustainability practices in the healthcare sector: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Mapping sustainability practices in the healthcare sector: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

A critical review and analysis of decision-support processes and tools for project delivery method selection

BIM-Based Green Hospital Building Performance Pre-Evaluation: A Case Study

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