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A Review of the Research Literature on Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
Roger S. Ulrich,Craig Zimring,Xuemei Zhu,Jennifer R. DuBose,Hyun-Bo Seo,Young-Seon Choi,Xiaobo Quan,Anjali Joseph +7 more
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This review found a growing body of rigorous studies to guide healthcare design, especially with respect to reducing the frequency of hospital-acquired infections and the state of knowledge of evidence-based healthcare design has grown rapidly in recent years.Abstract:
Objective:This report surveys and evaluates the scientific research on evidence-based healthcare design and extracts its implications for designing better and safer hospitals.Background:It builds o...read more
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Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome
Steven W. Kembel,Evan P. C. Jones,Jeff Kline,Dale Northcutt,Jason Stenson,Ann M Womack,Brendan J. M. Bohannan,G. Z. Brown,Jessica L. Green,Jessica L. Green +9 more
TL;DR: The observed relationship between building design and airborne bacterial diversity suggests that the authors can manage indoor environments, altering through building designand operation the community of microbial species that potentially colonize the human microbiome during their time indoors.
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TL;DR: Recommendations are made to improve the control of aerosol-transmitted infections in hospitals as well as in the design and construction of future isolation facilities.
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Healing environment: A review of the impact of physical environmental factors on users
Ercm Emelieke Huisman,Ernesto Morales,van J Joost Hoof,Hsm Helianthe Kort,Hsm Helianthe Kort +4 more
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that evidence of staff outcomes is scarce and insufficiently substantiated, and the implications of this review are relevant to the design and construction of HCF.
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COVID-19 lockdown: housing built environment’s effects on mental health
Andrea Amerio,Andrea Amerio,Andrea Brambilla,Alessandro Morganti,Andrea Aguglia,Davide Bianchi,Francesca Santi,Luigi Costantini,Anna Odone,Alessandra Costanza,Carlo Signorelli,Gianluca Serafini,Mario Amore,Stefano Capolongo +13 more
TL;DR: It is argued that a strengthened multi-interdisciplinary approach, involving urban planning, publicmental health, environmental health, epidemiology, and sociology, is needed to investigate the effects of the built environment on mental health, so as to inform welfare and housing policies centered on population well-being.
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Feelings of restoration from recent nature visits
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated feelings of restoration (calm, relaxed, revitalized and refreshed) recalled by individuals after visits to different natural environments within the last week and found that coastal visits were associated with the most restoration and town and urban parks with the least.
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To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System
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View through a window may influence recovery from surgery
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Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the United States
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