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Jun 13, 2019 · 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.
- Steven A. Lavender, Carolyn M. Sommerich, Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Kevin D. Evans, Jing Li, Radin Za...
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Flexible patient room layout accommodating care activities when patient needs change (e.g. acuity-adaptable rooms, universal rooms) to reduce need for patient transfers
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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.
May 19, 2016 · Provide visible and legible communication systems, such as patient room boards, to provide care team information to patients and families as well as any special instructions that might be needed. Where possible, use a noiseless paging/visual alarm and display system to minimize noise sources.
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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...
- 2020
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.
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Objectives: To identify patient needs and expectations that can be utilized to inform the design or renovation of medical–surgical patient rooms in a hospital. Background: There is an increased interest in supportive room design to increase patient satisfaction and improve the healing process.
