Barriers to green inhaler prescribing: ethical issues in environmentally sustainable clinical practice
The National Health Service (NHS) was the first healthcare system globally to declare ambitions to become net carbon zero. To achieve this, a shift away from metered-dose inhalers which contain powerful greenhouse gases is necessary. Many patients can use dry powder inhalers which do not contain gre...
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2023
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 92-98 |
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