The carbon footprint of diagnostic delays in asthma.

IF 4.3 3区医学 Q1 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

ERJ Open Research Pub Date : 2025-02-25 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1183/23120541.00577-2024

Lauranne Pouliot, Laurence Désy, Sarah-Ève Lemieux, Carlos Andrés Celis-Preciado, Samuel Lemaire-Paquette, Martine Duval, Simon Leclerc, Félix-Antoine Vézina, Philippe Lachapelle, Simon Couillard

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Abstract

The carbon footprint of inhalers used by 1314 people with unconfirmed asthma waiting for a GP-requested methacholine test in one centre was estimated to be 22 tons CO₂e. Solutions include ↓BPT wait-time (↓72% CO₂e) and switching MDI to DPI (↓81% CO₂e) https://bit.ly/4dxP7Pd.

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ERJ Open Research Medicine-Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

273

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： ERJ Open Research is a fully open access original research journal, published online by the European Respiratory Society. The journal aims to publish high-quality work in all fields of respiratory science and medicine, covering basic science, clinical translational science and clinical medicine. The journal was created to help fulfil the ERS objective to disseminate scientific and educational material to its members and to the medical community, but also to provide researchers with an affordable open access specialty journal in which to publish their work.