Hospital Design and Construction
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ensuring quieter hospital environments.

30 Aug 2009 This is the fourth in a series of articles from Planetree, an international nonprofit organization founded in 1978 that's "committed to improving medical care from the patient's perspective." For more information, go to ... Read more...

'A bed in the middle of nowhere': parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis.

16 Aug 2009 As populations age and chronic conditions become more prevalent, an individual's ability to choose the location of their end-of-life care and death is increasingly considered important in the provision of good healthcare, with home implied as the ... Read more...

Mobile and fixed computer use by doctors and nurses on hospital wards: multi-method study on the relationships between clinician role, clinical task, and device choice.

2 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Selecting the right mix of stationary and mobile computing devices is a significant challenge for system planners and implementers. There is very limited research evidence upon which to base such decisions. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospital Design and Construction'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Doors. 30 Oct 2009
• Honorable mention/built. Children's Medical Center at Legacy, Plano, Texas. 5 Sep 2009
• Award of excellence/built. Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital, Grand Rapids, Minn. 5 Sep 2009
• Citation/built. SSM St. Clare Health Center, St. Louis County, Mo. 5 Sep 2009
• Citation/built. Miller Family Pavilion and Glickman Tower, Cleveland. 5 Sep 2009
• Citation/unbuilt. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 5 Sep 2009
• Making accommodations. Award-winning designs take approaches that benefit patients, family and staff. 5 Sep 2009
• The global and the local: changes at Groote Schuur Hospital. 3 Sep 2009
• Ensuring quieter hospital environments. 30 Aug 2009
• A material world. Construction commodity prices fall, but don't expect a surge in projects. 22 Aug 2009
• 'A bed in the middle of nowhere': parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis. 16 Aug 2009
• Mobile and fixed computer use by doctors and nurses on hospital wards: multi-method study on the relationships between clinician role, clinical task, and device choice. 2 Aug 2009
• Finish line. Making the best selections in flooring, walls, hard surfaces and upholstery. 30 Jul 2009
• Doctors' orders. Physicians key to hospital design effort. 30 Jul 2009
• The Department of Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center: at the forefront of surgical innovation. 30 Jul 2009
• Contemporary design for 'landmark' centre. 30 Jul 2009
• Theoretical injections: On the therapeutic aesthetics of medical spaces. 13 Jul 2009
• All ICUs are not created equal: evaluating pilot studies performed in different environments. 29 Jun 2009
• Lessons learned from the design experience. 29 Jun 2009
• Walking on golden eggshells. Some Calif. hospitals sweating seismic mandates. 20 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Hospital Design and Construction'

Definition: The architecture, functional design, and construction of hospitals.

Descriptor UI: D006749

Alternative terms: Hospital Design and Construction; Hospital Construction and Design; Hospital Designs; Hospital Design; Design, Hospital; Designs, Hospital; Hospital Renovations; Hospital Renovation; Renovation, Hospital; Renovations, Hospital; Hospital Construction; Construction, Hospital;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; standards; statistics & numerical data; ethics; trends;

Tree Number: J01.086.339.250; N02.278.200.403;

Online Note: use HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION to search HOSPITAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION 1966-67

History Note: 68; HOSPITAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION was heading 1963-67

Technical Notes: differentiate from HOSPITAL PLANNING (develop of plans at a community, state, regional or natl level): HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION refers to architecture & decor; DF: HOSP DESIGN