Promoting practice change towards environmentally sustainable health care: more than meets the eye

Vivian H Y Ip¹, Clifford L Shelton^{2

3}, Gabrielle L Zimmermann^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Hospital, 2-150 Clinical Sciences Building (CSB), 8440 112 St NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G3, Canada. hip@ualberta.ca.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
³ Lancaster Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
⁴ Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit - Learning Health System Team, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Editorial

Vivian H Y Ip et al. Can J Anaesth. 2023 Mar.

. 2023 Mar;70(3):295-300.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-022-02391-1. Epub 2023 Feb 10.

Vivian H Y Ip¹, Clifford L Shelton^{2

3}, Gabrielle L Zimmermann^{4

5}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Hospital, 2-150 Clinical Sciences Building (CSB), 8440 112 St NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G3, Canada. hip@ualberta.ca.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
³ Lancaster Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
⁴ Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit - Learning Health System Team, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

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