A Review of Current Best Practice in Healthcare Accomodation and Observations on Future Directions
This part of the study consisted of an information trawl of the following published documents:
- Health Building Note 4 (In Patient Accommodation)
- Health Technical Memoranda
- Infection Control in the Built Environment
- Various publications on:
- sleep in hospitals
- space/design of hospitals
- travel distances
- environmental psychology
- Medical Architecture Research Unit Publications
- American Institute of Architects Conference Notes
- CABE Publications
(the titles of those publications reviewed and analysed for relevant findings are set out in Appendix 2)
In addition a number of UK clinicians were interviewed ranging from Directors of Medicine through to Senior Nursing Staff.
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