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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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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.
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.
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.
Jun 29, 2015 · There are a number of issues that should be addressed in the next generation of hospital patient rooms, or when refurbishing existing facilities, so that all occupational stakeholder groups can work effectively, efficiently, and without undue physical stress.
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Jul 8, 2021 · The design solutions analyzed, to improve the patient room, show how the physical environment can lead to positive results in terms of well-being (of users and operators); staff productivity (workflow); clinical safety (prevention of medical errors, misapplication of therapy, contraction of nosocomial infection), psychological and physical ...
