Environmental and financial cost of surgical-site infection by severity after lower limb vascular surgery
Environmental and financial costs are strongly correlated with surgical-site infection severity and display an exponential increase as severity increases. Overall, surgical-site infection incurs a cost of €15.58 for every kgCO2e produced. Environmental discounting should be explored and incorporated into sustainability assessments for robust accounting methodology. Surgical-site infection should be evaluated for severity rather than as a binary outcome for comprehensive assessment.
Authors
- Pedro Beltrán-Álvarez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8136-8963)
- Ian Chetter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2566-6859)
- Joseph Cutteridge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2867-7393)
- Ross Lathan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9932-5304)
- Judith Long (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6311-2101)
- Daniel Carradice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7733-3925)
- George Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8085-0886)
- Misha Sidapra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5875-5957)
- Louise Hitchman
- Arthur Jun Ming Lim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0011-1336)
- Bharadhwaj Ravindhran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0778-2191)
- Hannah Daysley
Institutions
- University of Hull (GB)
- University Teaching Hospital (ZM)
- Hull York Medical School (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BJS Open
- Published
- 2025-05-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zraf015
- Primary Topic
- Surgical site infection prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00