| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
A look at current health-facility design research -- Arrival and exterior wayfinding -- Interior wayfinding and the circulation system -- Waiting and reception areas -- Diagnostic and treatment areas -- Inpatient rooms and baths -- Access to nature -- Users with functional limitations -- Special places and services -- User participation in healthcare facility design : going beyond guidelines |
| Summary |
Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for understanding and achieving customer-focused, evidence-based health care design excellence. This updated third edition includes new information about how all aspects of health facility design - site planning, architecture, interiors, product design, graphic design, and others - can meet the needs and reflect the preferences of customers: patients, family and visitors, as well as staff. The book takes readers on a journey through a typical health facility and discusses, in detail, at each stop along the way, how design can demonstrate care both for and about patients and visitors. Design that Cares provides the definitive roadmap to improving customer experience by design |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Health facilities -- Design and construction.
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Health facilities -- Planning.
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Hospital buildings -- Design and construction.
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Hospitals -- Planning.
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Architecture -- Human factors.
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Human engineering.
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Facility Design and Construction
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Health Facility Planning
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Ergonomics
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Hospital Design and Construction
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Hospital Planning
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ergonomics.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
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Human engineering
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Architecture -- Human factors
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Health facilities -- Design and construction
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Health facilities -- Planning
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Hospital buildings -- Design and construction
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Hospitals -- Planning
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grant, Myron A., 1949- author.
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Kirchen, Elizabeth M., author
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| LC no. |
2015036983 |
| ISBN |
9781118221631 |
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111822163X |
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9781118235409 |
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1118235401 |
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0787988111 |
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9780787988111 |
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