Archive for April, 2012
Healthcare Design Blog Launch!
We appreciate everyone for reading the Hospital Design Blog and would like to tell you about the launch of a new interior design resource called the Healthcare Design Blog. On this blog, expert healthcare interior designer Jain Malkin and her associates including, Christie Mayer and Michele Woodard will be posting entries about a variety of topics within the healthcare design industry.
The topics for the new blog include organizing healthcare design team meetings, specialized furniture and paint for hospitals, exam room design and other facets of the healthcare design world. We invite you to check out the Healthcare Design Blog.
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How is Evidence-Based Design Different from Research-Based Design?
LifeScape Medical Associates - Scottsdale, Arizona
That’s a good question. Research-based design―research about the environment―has been around for a very long time and I think thoughtful architects and designers have for many years employed research in an informal way when they’re designing spaces. I would say the best architects and designers have very good intuition as well that feeds into that. But just using research does not mandate in and of itself that you’re going to embark upon a formal process.
When we’re talking about evidence-based design, there is a formal process that one has to follow and this is outlined in the book. You start with the hypothesis, here’s what I think will be true if we design the nursing unit this way, and then, if you’re an architectural firm, one of the best things to do is find a consultant who is perhaps associated with an academic institution, a researcher, to work with you to develop this. I am vastly simplifying the process in this description but it starts with a literature review and figuring out with hospital leadership the best issues to study (more…)
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