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Using Operational Planning Studies


To improve planning and design in healthcare facilities
Operational planning studies play a vital role in healthcare facility planning It assists clients in obtaining goals of improvised quality efficiency and experience Lean operational planning is a methodology that draws upon the ability to specify details on objectives that can be achieved and carrie...
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State of Sustainable Design in Healthcare


A commentary
The buildings that support the delivery of healthcare services encompass a broad range of building typesranging from small community outpatient clinics to large acute care hospitalsand an equally broad range of ownersphilanthropic nonprofits to corporate entities Globally healthcare is a significant...
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Improving Reliability for Safer Care


A proactive approach
From a scientific pointofview healthcare has improved dramatically over the past years The development of new treatment modalities has had a significant impact on many people This of course differs from country to country as well as within countries and communities Access to the standardised and re...
Patient Safety and Risk Management

Patient Safety and Risk Management


A look at the basics
The need to consider and manage the safety of patients within healthcare has been widely recognised over the past decade The science of patient safety has grown and is constantly seeking to identify how and why things go wrong in patient care and what we can learn from other industries and from othe...
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Patient Safety


The next level
It has been seven years since patient safety became recognised as a major international healthcare issue Eisenbergs analogy of patient safety having the characteristics of an epidemic of worldwide portions provides a framework of examining patient safety with three stages Identify the risks a...
Desperately Seeking Safety

Desperately Seeking Safety


Creating integrated surgical/imaging environments that do less harm
The challenge of creating safer healthcare environments Health care is plagued by an insurmountable abundance of medical errors It is estimated that over preventable deaths occur each year in the US hospitals alone This is equal in magnitude to a jumbo jet liner crashing every three days with n...
Hospital of Tomorrow

Hospital of Tomorrow


The design perspective
The field of healthcare designs is currently undergoing an exciting transformation that will significantly change the appearance of our hospitals More and more healthcare administrators and medical professionals are becoming aware of the need to create a healing environment that supports the needs o...
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Benchmarking and Measuring Patient Safety


The Medway model
The Medway NHS Foundation Trust is situated in Kent approximately miles east of London and miles west of the coast of England It is a large district general hospital and has regional services including Vascular and Neonatal services It also has the busiest accident and emergency department in the...
Quality and Safety

Quality and Safety


Creating a supportive culture
Consider a typical senior management meeting and how carewhich is after all the core businessis talked about Care is typically talked about as delays costs issues liabilities and perhaps revenue or market share Its beneficial purpose generally remains implicit Conversely consider a typical clinical...
Healthcare Design

Healthcare Design


The need for consumer-driven research
The pivotal role of healthcare design in the improvement of healthcare delivery has become widely accepted under the rubric of evidencebased design However there is a need for consumerdriven comprehensive programming methodology applicable to healthcare design projects in Asia and the United States
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