How to cite
The software
ClinImpact (version 2.11.1) [software]. 2026. Life cycle assessment of surgical procedures. Available from: https://clinimpact.app
Use the version shown in the application's header (About) at the time of the analysis; the reports and exports print it. There is no DOI yet; this page will carry it when there is one.
A report
ClinImpact. <Procedure>, <hospital>: life cycle assessment report, project “<project>”, version <n> [report]. <publication date>.
The Standard report of a version prints this citation filled in, together with the citation of the background database and of every drug-factor paper the version used.
The background database
| Database | Life Cycle Inventory database of the Swiss Federal Administration, BAFU:2026, version 1 |
| Publisher | Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN / BAFU), Division Economics and Innovation, Section Consumption and Products, Bern |
| Obtained | 2026-07-27, from openLCA Nexus, as the openLCA database BAFU-2026 v1 (also delivered in ecoSpold v1) |
| System model | Attributional, cut-off at end-of-waste. Not stated in the documentation shipped with the download (Context and Content; Terms of Use, 23.06.2026); inferred from the Swiss federal LCI rules v8.1 §9.3, which BAFU datasets follow (no recycling credits, economic or physical allocation, boundary at the end-of-waste point), and from the ecoinvent v2.2 lineage ecobau states for them. The catalogue row says both the convention and that BAFU itself is silent |
| Builds on | Not documented in the same documentation |
| Data quality | Datasets follow the guideline BAFU DQRv2:2023; most were critically reviewed for ISO 14040 compatibility (per Context and Content) |
| Extent | Roughly 11,000 inventories in 176 categories (2025 edition, per BAFU). This application's catalogue carries 7,551 of them — 6,630 materials and products and 922 disposal and treatment processes for the disposal pickers (821 since 2.5.0, 101 more since 2.9.2) — selected as described in tools/factor-extraction/catalog-categories.md |
| Citation | Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). Life Cycle Inventory database of the Swiss Federal Administration, BAFU:2026, version 1 [dataset]. Bern: FOEN; 2026. Downloaded from openLCA Nexus, 2026-07-27. |
| Required quotation | The Terms of Use (§2.3) require: "Life Cycle Inventory database of the Swiss Federal Administration, BAFU:2026". German form: "Datenbank der Schweizer Bundesverwaltung, BAFU:2026, Bundesamt für Umwelt". |
| Licence | Data may be used and reused, including in a calculator, but not sold or redistributed as a database. Reports shipped with the data are the authors' copyright. |
Suggested statements
| Data availability | The complete inventory (every line, with quantities, emission factors, dataset names and UUIDs) is available in the Excel export of report version <n>. |
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| Reproducibility | Published ClinImpact reports are frozen: each line stores its factor, dataset, UUID, method and extraction date and is not recomputed when datasets are revised. The SHA-256 fingerprint on the report's document-control page identifies the version. |
| Methods | The application generates a methods paragraph for each report (“For publication…”), whose sentences adapt to what the report counted. The full method is documented at https://clinimpact.com/methods/. |