Mapping key performance indicators for sustainable hospital waste management

The increase in population has led to an increasingly important role for healthcare and, consequently, an increase in medical waste. Medical waste requires special care due to its capacity to transmit diseases. Therefore, evaluating the performance of a given hospital waste supply chain through cert...

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Published inActa logistica Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 43 - 52
Main Authors Ferreira, Andre, Ramos, Ana, Ferreira, Jose, Ferreira, Luis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Semsa 4S go, s.r.o 01.03.2025
Subjects
Business metrics
Case studies
Cost reduction
Decision making
Developing countries
Disease transmission
Health care industry
Health services
Hepatitis
Hospitals
Impact analysis
Indicators
Infections
LDCs
Literature reviews
Management decisions
Medical laboratories
Medical personnel
Medical wastes
Performance evaluation
Public health
Qualitative analysis
Research centers
Suppliers
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Sustainability
Waste management
Algeria
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Summary:The increase in population has led to an increasingly important role for healthcare and, consequently, an increase in medical waste. Medical waste requires special care due to its capacity to transmit diseases. Therefore, evaluating the performance of a given hospital waste supply chain through certain performance indicators plays an especially important role in supply chain management. A literature review was therefore carried out about the hospital waste supply chain and its performance indicators. The main objective of this article is to analyze which performance indicators for hospital waste supply chains exist and what their impact is through the analysis of some case studies. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of existing publications on this subject was also carried out using the Scopus database with the keywords “key performance indicators” and “supply chain”. From this study it can be seen that 2023 was the year with the highest number of publications, and the lowest number of publications was in 2011. Article is the typology with the highest number of publications, with more than 50% of the total.This study shows that performance indicators enable better decision-making in order to improve the efficiency of a hospital waste supply chain.
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ISSN:1339-5629
1339-5629
DOI:10.22306/al.v12i1.580