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Author Leydecker, Sylvia, author.

Title Designing the patient room : a new approach to healthcare interiors / Sylvia Leydecker
Published Basel : Birkhäuser, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Functional areas -- Key components of the design task -- Old age and dementia -- Ensuring hygiene -- International developments and trends -- Selected projects -- Workflow: planning, interfaces and methods -- Business economics, marketing and operations -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Illustration credits
Summary "Interior architecture is the main factor in creating pleasant environments for in-patient healthcare. Whether in paediatric or geriatric wards, economic efficiency, patient well-being and staff satisfaction are increasingly the focus of treatment, healing and healthcare concepts around the world. Well-designed interior architecture concepts for patient rooms can benefit the patient's process of recovery and, through its atmosphere and functionality, improve the quality of the hospital experience. This book explores the design of the patient room as a core part of healthcare environments. It describes the different design components, such as material, colour, light and surface finish, and addresses the needs of hygiene and the specific challenges presented by demographic change and digitisation, as well as workflow issues and economic efficiency. Fourteen international case studies illustrate these design principles"-- Provided by publisher
"The book documents the design of patient rooms as the core element of a hospital. It explains the different design components such as material, color, light, surface texture, etc., while addressing the necessities of hygiene, as well as those of workflow, and economic viability. The book is rounded off by ten international project examples"-- Provided by publisher
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Health facilities -- Design and construction.
Health facilities -- Planning.
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction.
Architecture -- Human factors.
Hospital Design and Construction
Patients' Rooms
Health Facility Planning
hospital wards.
ARCHITECTURE -- Interior Design -- General.
Architecture -- Human factors
Health facilities -- Design and construction
Health facilities -- Planning
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction
Krankenhausbau
Innenarchitektur
Genre/Form illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783038211105
3038211109
3038214930
9783038214939
9783038219804
3038219800