AHRQ - The Hospital Built Environment

What Role Might Funders of Health Services Research Play?
AHRQ Publication No. 05-0106-EF, October 2005.
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospbuilt/

A literature review and interviews with architects, designers, academics, and health care executives were conducted between February and May of 2005, in an attempt to determine if associations exist between hospital building design elements and patient and staff safety, health outcomes, and patient and staff satisfaction levels.

The findings were used to bring focus to the challenges of evidence-based hospital design and the roles that funders might play in the development and transfer of knowledge related to the constructed hospital environment.

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