Multiple-criteria decision analysis reveals high stakeholder preference to remove pharmaceuticals from hospital wastewater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3848-3857

  Lienert, Judit ^a   Koller, Mirjam ^a   Konrad, Jonas ^a   McArdell, Christa S ^a   Schuwirth, Nele ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DECISION; CONTRAST AGENT; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISKS; HOSPITAL WASTEWATER; MASS FLOW; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; OZONATION; PATHOGEN REMOVAL; POINT-SOURCES; TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER PROTECTION; WATERBODIES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; BODY FLUIDS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DRUG PRODUCTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HOSPITALS; INCINERATION; OZONE; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; OZONIZATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CONTRAST MEDIUM; COSALANE; OZONE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DECISION ANALYSIS; DRUG; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; OSMOSIS; PATHOGEN; POINT SOURCE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEPARATION; STAKEHOLDER; TRADE-OFF; URINE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HOSPITAL WASTE; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OZONATION; PREDICTION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SWITZERLAND; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79955532650     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1031294     Document Type: Article

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