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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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Design of the environment of care for safety of patients and personnel: Does form follow function or vice versa in the intensive care unit?

Author(s): Bartley, J., Streifel, A. J.
Added September 2015

An Immersive Virtual Reality Mock-Up for Design Review of Hospital Patient Rooms

Author(s): Dunston, P. S., Arns, L. L., Mcglothlin, J. D., Lasker, G. C., Kushner, A. G., Wang, X., Tsai, J. J.-H.
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Added December 2014

Design for Patient Safety - Considering a Patient Safety Risk Assessment

Author(s): Taylor, E., Joseph, A., Quan, X., Duffy, V.
Added October 2014

Designing a tool to support patient safety: Using research to inform a proactive approach to healthcare facility design

Author(s): Taylor, E., Joseph, A., Quan, X., Nanda, U.
Added October 2014

An epidemiological study assessing the relative importance of airborne and direct contact transmission of microorganisms in a medical intensive care unit

Author(s): Bauer, T. M., Ofner, E., Just, H. M., Just, H., Daschner, F. D.
Added September 2014

Health Care Logistics and Space: Accounting for the Physical Build Environment

Author(s): Boucherie, R. J., Hans, E. W., Hartmann, T.
Added November 2015

Layout Planning Problems in Health Care

Author(s): Arnolds, I., Nickel, S., Eiselt, A. H., Marianov, V.
Added May 2016

Outpatient clinic layout design accounting for flexible policies

Author(s): Vahdatzad, V., Griffin, J.
Added January 2017

How Strongly Programmed is a Strong Programme Building? A Comparative Analysis of Outpatient Clinics in Two Hospitals

Author(s): Sailer, K., Pachilova, R., Kostopoulou, E., Pradinuk, R., MacKinnon, D., Hoofwijk, T.
The spatial configuration of a given building can be classified into one of two popular theoretical categories: weakly programmed or strongly programmed. These terms have become increasingly more commonly used when analyzing the spatial syntax of buildings; however, the authors suggest that their definitions and criteria are not clearly defined.
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Added May 2017

Human Factors Evaluation of an Interventional Trauma Operating Room Mock-up

Author(s): Biesbroek, S., Shultz, J., Kirkpatrick, A., Kortbeek, J.
Trauma operating rooms and angiography procedure rooms are separate entities in hospitals. An Interventional Trauma Operating Room (ITOR) with scope for both traditional surgery and interventional radiological procedures was designed to reduce the risk involved in moving unstable patients between the two treatment areas.
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Added December 2014

Design and Simulation of Isolation Room for a Hospital

Author(s): Jacob, Simeon, Yadav, Siddharth Singh, Sikarwar, Basant Singh, Saha, Pankaj, Subbarao, P.M.V., Sikarwar, Basant Singh
Added May 2019

PROcess for the design of user-centered environments (PRODUCE): Guiding change in the health care environment

Author(s): Ray, J. M., Berg, R., Sudikoff, S. N.
Added October 2019

Designing for patient safety and efficiency: Simulation-based hospital design testing

Author(s): Colman, N., Edmond, M. B., Dalpiaz, A., Walter, S., Miller, D. C., Hebbar, K.
Added May 2020

Simulating the impact of facility design on operations: A study in an internal medicine ward

Author(s): Schaumann, D., Putievsky Pilosof, N., Gath-Morad, M., Kalay, Y. E.
Added May 2020

Nurses’ participation in the design of an intensive care unit: The use of virtual mock-ups

Author(s): Jouppila, T., Tiainen, T.
Added July 2020

Are we measuring what we ought to measure? A review of tools assessing patient perception of the healthcare built environment and their suitability for oncology spaces

Author(s): Sadek, A. H., Willis, J.
Added August 2020

Practice-based research methods and tools: Introducing the Design Diagnostic

Author(s): Nanda, U., Wingler, D.
Added August 2020

A review of computerized hospital layout modelling techniques and their ethical implications

Author(s): Jamali, N., Leung, R. K., Verderber, S.
Added March 2020

Participatory design, project clients, and healthcare user groups

Author(s): Carthey, J.
Added September 2020

Physical-digital model for co-design in healthcare buildings

Author(s): Caixeta, Michele Caroline Bueno Ferrari, Fabricio, Márcio Minto
Added November 2020