Interior Design and Furnishings - Methods
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Effect of two different house screening interventions on exposure to malaria vectors and on anaemia in children in The Gambia: a randomised controlled trial.

Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: House screening should protect people against malaria. We assessed whether two types of house screening--full screening of windows, doors, and closing eaves, or installation of screened ceilings--could reduce house entry of malaria ... Read more...

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...

Designing health care environments: Part II. Preparing nurses to be design team members.

29 Jun 2009 Significant renovation, expansion, and new construction of health care facilities is expected during the next several years. Nurse leaders must expand their knowledge of the design process and evidence of design features that enhance safety, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Interior Design and Furnishings - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Effect of two different house screening interventions on exposure to malaria vectors and on anaemia in children in The Gambia: a randomised controlled trial. Sep 2009
• House screening for malaria control. Sep 2009
• Ensuring quieter hospital environments. 30 Aug 2009
• Designing health care environments: Part II. Preparing nurses to be design team members. 29 Jun 2009
• Designing health care environments: Part I. Basic concepts, principles, and issues related to evidence-based design. 30 May 2009
• Caring for people with dementia: noise and light. 30 May 2009
• A proclamation for change: transforming the hospital patient care environment. 30 May 2009
• Where is the value in value engineering? 30 May 2009
• Designed for a better life. Interview by Daniel Allen. 30 Mar 2009
• Joint optimization: Merging a new culture with a new physical environment. 30 Mar 2009
• Obtaining adolescents' views about inpatient facilities using conjoint analysis. 27 Feb 2009
• Action stations. 30 Dec 2008
• Unlocked potential. 30 Dec 2008
• Construction of an integrated surgical suite in a military treatment facility. 30 Dec 2008
• Healing by design. 29 Nov 2008
• Building a health sciences center: a design primer. 30 Oct 2008
• Local color. Children's hospital inspired by familiar scenes. 30 Oct 2008
• Using simulation to design a central sterilization department. 29 Sep 2008
• An exploratory examination of medical gas booms versus traditional headwalls in intensive care unit design. 29 Sep 2008
• Should maternity services be hotel-like? 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Interior Design and Furnishings'

Definition: The planning of the furnishings and decorations of an architectural interior.

Descriptor UI: D007374

Alternative terms: Interior Design and Furnishings; Interior Furnishings; Furnishing, Interior; Furnishings, Interior; Interior Furnishing; Furniture; Interior Design; Design, Interior; Designs, Interior; Interior Designs;

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

Tree Number: J01.086.339.290;

History Note: 91(Aug 77); was see under FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION 1977-90

Technical Notes: for houses, commerc estab, hosp, institutions, etc.; DF: INTERIOR DESIGN