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The guidelines developed through this study identified many opportunities for improving the design of hospital Med/Surg rooms to allow staff to be more effective, efficient, and safer, while at the same time addressing the design needs of patients and their visitors.
- Building a Better Operating Room: views from surgery and ...
The field of “Evidence Based Design” (modeled after evidence...
- Building a Better Operating Room: views from surgery and ...
The field of “Evidence Based Design” (modeled after evidence based medicine) has grown exponentially in the last decade, with numerous studies linking the hospital built environment to clinical outcomes 3. Despite the growing body of research, the field is still nascent and lacks many of the characteristics academic surgeons are now accustomed to in health services research.
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patient room, ergonomics, hospital design and construction, human factors, injury prevention, cross infection, visitors to patients, patient safety In understanding the challenge of designing hos-pital patient rooms, it is useful to consider an illustrative example of one of the many people who enter the room in order to conduct work during their s...
This project investigated how the design of Med/ Surg patient rooms could be improved to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and ergonomics of hospital staff members and how these design fea-tures affect patients and their visitors. The results from this study exposed many opportunities for improving the design of these spaces and yielded 66 des...
The design process for hospital patient rooms needs to include all occupational groups that will be working in the planned spaces. Patient rooms need to be large enough to accommodate the equipment and working space requirements at the bedside space, while still accommodating the patient’s visitors. The 66 evidence-based design guidelines for Med/S...
The authors would like to thank Richard Davis and Adrian Boysel from the facility planning group at the Ohio State University Wexner Med-ical Center for their input at multiple stages of this project.
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Supplemental material for this article is available online.
- Steven A. Lavender, Carolyn M. Sommerich, Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Kevin D. Evans, Jing Li, Radin Za...
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May 19, 2016 · Overall, we found 19 well-documented features worth considering for incorporation into med/surg rooms. The top six are as follows: Think about creating specific zones tailored to the needs of and usage by patients, family, and staff.
Jun 29, 2015 · Rooms designed to facilitate all types of work performed in the room could improve task performance, efficiency, and safety for staff, which in turn would also be beneficial for patients. Three trends in healthcare will impact the design of hospital rooms.
With the increasing interest on hospital and surgeon performance, the time is ripe to explore how the operating room could be designed better to improve both. Use of simulation, staged construction, user-centered outcomes and new research collaborations are emerging as useful tools to improve future operating room design.
Medical-surgical patient rooms constitute a significant component of a hospital building project, with a large body of research evidence and best practice knowledge for designers to draw upon in order to create a best design that successfully addresses unique issues in the design of each project.
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