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Healthcare design research update

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If you’re trying to keep up with research in healthcare design, it can be like drinking from a firehose at times. AAH recently presented a webinar about our partnership with The Center for Health design on the Knowledge Repository, Better than Google: What’s out there and how to find it. The webinar itself included a live walkthrough of the free online resource. If you’ve never used the Knowledge Repository, you may want to check out the latest research citations you might use to inform your design. The Knowledge Repository can’t house full-text papers, due to copyright issues, but Key Point Summaries are written to help distill the study findings in layman’s terms. If you need more detail, you can click on the source link to access the publisher’s site for the full paper.

Check out the Key Point Summaries currently available for papers published in 2018! They include summaries on:

Design research

the impact of layout on circulating nurse’s work patterns and flow and disruptions on microbial load
design for different age groups
a tool to evaluate outdoor environments in residential care settings
literature reviews on the role of design in cancer care
carpet influences on air quality and outcomes

Workplace issues research

workplace design for residential aged care workforce
safety and security of nurses working in an ICU)
nurse evaluation of patient safety design features in an ICU
the creation of adult observation units to improve outcomes
a continued evolution of our understanding of decentralized unit design

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