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10 current trends influencing 1. Focus on quality, safety, and satisfaction
healthcare in the US today? 2. Healthcare costs and reimbursement
3. Environmental safety and sustainability
4. Healthcare worker safety and caregiver
shortages
5. Aging population
6. Health information and emerging technology
7. Decentralized healthcare, ambulatory care, and
care at home
8. Disaster preparedness and emergency
department saturation
9. Genomics and predictive health
How can EBD positively influence by designing healing and therapeutic environments
the challenges represented by these that help reduce errors, improve patient and staff
trends? satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and support the
latest technological advances such as HIT and
genomics
What is the definition of evidence The process of basing decisions about the built
based design environment on credible research to achieve the
best possible outcomes.
, What are the eight steps of the EBD 1. Define evidence-based goals & objectives
process? (1) 2. Find sources for relevant evidence
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts
5. Develop a hypothesis
6. Collect baseline performance measures
7. Monitor implementation of design and
construction
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results
Why is the construction of a new there is little assocation between investment and
building been viewed as a sunk cost? outcomes
Which of the following clinical and adverse reactions of drugs
safety outcomes are typically NOT
affected by the design of the
physical healthcare environment?
What is the primary goal of writing a To demonstrate how facility investments can
business case? enhance safety
what needs to be balanced against Improved patient outcomes
ongoing operating savings and
enhanced revenue to make the
business case for design innovations
What are the six typical -ownership
classifications for inpatient hospitals? -length of stay
-type of service
-public access
-location
-size
Based Design: Exploring Healthcare and Design |
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Terms in this set (48)
10 current trends influencing 1. Focus on quality, safety, and satisfaction
healthcare in the US today? 2. Healthcare costs and reimbursement
3. Environmental safety and sustainability
4. Healthcare worker safety and caregiver
shortages
5. Aging population
6. Health information and emerging technology
7. Decentralized healthcare, ambulatory care, and
care at home
8. Disaster preparedness and emergency
department saturation
9. Genomics and predictive health
How can EBD positively influence by designing healing and therapeutic environments
the challenges represented by these that help reduce errors, improve patient and staff
trends? satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and support the
latest technological advances such as HIT and
genomics
What is the definition of evidence The process of basing decisions about the built
based design environment on credible research to achieve the
best possible outcomes.
, What are the eight steps of the EBD 1. Define evidence-based goals & objectives
process? (1) 2. Find sources for relevant evidence
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts
5. Develop a hypothesis
6. Collect baseline performance measures
7. Monitor implementation of design and
construction
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results
Why is the construction of a new there is little assocation between investment and
building been viewed as a sunk cost? outcomes
Which of the following clinical and adverse reactions of drugs
safety outcomes are typically NOT
affected by the design of the
physical healthcare environment?
What is the primary goal of writing a To demonstrate how facility investments can
business case? enhance safety
what needs to be balanced against Improved patient outcomes
ongoing operating savings and
enhanced revenue to make the
business case for design innovations
What are the six typical -ownership
classifications for inpatient hospitals? -length of stay
-type of service
-public access
-location
-size
