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The Knowledge Repository is a complete, user-friendly database of healthcare design research references that continues to grow with the latest peer-reviewed publications. Start with our Knowledge Repository for all of your searches for articles and research citations on healthcare design topics. Access full texts through the source link, read key point summaries, or watch slidecasts. Expand your search and find project briefs, interviews, and other relevant resources by visiting our Insights & Solutions page.

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A Recovery-Oriented Care Approach: Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Newly Built Mental Health Facility

Author(s): Ahern, C. C., Bieling, P., McKinnon, M. C., McNeely, H. E., Langstaff, K.
An inpatient mental health hospital was renovated with a newly built environment that incorporated patient-centered, clinically informed designs in an attempt to improve overall safety and quality of care. The new designs were considerably expensive and had extensive design implications for other parts of the hospital outside of the mental health facility.
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Added June 2016

Radical Redesign of Nursing Homes: Applying the Green House Concept in Tupelo, Mississippi

Author(s): Rabig, J., Thomas, W., Kane, R. A., Cutler, L. J., McAlilly, S.
The Green House design should be considered as nursing home resident numbers are growing. Early experiences with the “pod-like” structure show positive effects on residents, families, and staff.
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Added September 2014

Perceived hospital environment quality indicators: A study of orthopaedic units

Author(s): Fornara, F., Bonaiuto, M., Bonnes, M.
The field of healthcare design has increasingly recognized the need for building environments that are more ‘‘user-centered,’’ but spatial–physical features have not typically been included in assessment surveys on patient satisfaction.
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Added July 2014

Designing for Patient Safety: Developing Methods to Integrate Patient Safety Concerns in the Design Process

Author(s): Joseph, A., Taylor, E. M. , Quan, X., Jelen, M.
Added October 2012

Design Evaluation Of Six Primary Care Facilities For The Purpose Of Informing Future Design Decisions

Author(s): Min Kantrowitz & Associates
Added October 2012

Influences of building design and site design on physical activity - Research and intervention opportunities

Author(s): Zimring, C., Joseph, A., Nicoll, G.L., Tsepas, S.
Added October 2012

Dimensions of person-window transactions in the hospital environment

Author(s): Verderber, S.
Added October 2012

The healing environment in our communities and healthcare settings: research excellence into practice

Author(s): Craft, N.
Added October 2012

Environmental leadership for healthier patients and facilities

Author(s): Cohen, G., Vittori, Atwood, Rossi, Lent, Brannen, Harvie, Schettler
Added October 2012

The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature

Author(s): Berman, M.G., Jonides, J., Kaplan, S.
Added October 2012

Symposium looks into healthy designs

Author(s): Bennett, S.
Added October 2012

The design of caring environments and the quality of life of older people

Author(s): Barnes, S., Design in Caring Environments Study, G.
Added October 2012

The interrelatedness of wandering and wayfinding in a community sample of persons with dementia

Author(s): Algase, D.L., Son, G.R., Beattie, E., Song, J.A., Leitsch, S., Yao, L.
Added October 2012

The Evaluation of an Environmental Remodeling Program on a Psychiatric Geriatric Ward

Author(s): Stahler, G.J., Frazer, D., Rappaport, H.
Added October 2012

Alberta Children's Hospital

Author(s): Logan, K.
Added October 2012

Healing by the Warmth of the Sun: Garden Reveals First View of New Hospital Complex

Author(s): Epstein, E.
Added October 2012

Sarah Kubitschek Hospital-Salvador, Brazil: principles for a healing architecture at latitude 13°

Author(s): Tenorio, R.
Added October 2012

The Road Ahead: The Need to Clarify and Re-Conceptualize Healing Environments

Author(s): Kuo, N., Hui, C.
Added October 2012

Designing the 21st Century Hospital : Environmental Leadership for Healthier Patients, Facilities, & Communities

Author(s): Guenther, R.F., Vittori, G., Atwood, C.
Added October 2012

Transforming care in children's hospitals through environmental design: Literature Review

Author(s): Joseph, A., Keller, A., Kronick, K.
Added October 2012