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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.

    Tool

    Hand Hygiene Evaluation Checklist
    August 2015 ∘ Tool

    This tool provides healthcare designers and professionals with ideas on how to address the issue of hand hygiene and infection control in facility design.
    Tool

    Patient Room Design Checklist and Evaluation Tool
    August 2015 ∘ Tool

    Developed through extensive review of research, surveys, site tests, and review and validation by expert advisory council members, this standard set of evidence-based design checklists and post-occupancy evaluation (POE) tools can be used by interior designers to apply research to healthcare design projects and to conduct post-occupancy evaluations of three types of hospital patient rooms: adult medical-surgical, adult intensive care, and maternity care.
    Design Strategies

    Design Strategies — Infection Control - Hand Hygiene
    July 2015 ∘ Design Strategies
    Overview

    Hand hygiene is the single most important component of healthcare-associated infection prevention. The physical environment plays a key role in promoting hand hygiene. Effective hand hygiene strategies integrate environmental, personal, and organizational/operational elements.    

     
    Lessons Learned

    Lessons Learned About Infection Control
    June 2015 ∘ Lessons Learned

    The following are compiled from research literature, case studies, interviews, and other materials to provide an overview on the topic of infection control.