Residential Healthcare Facilities 2014 Guidelines Revision Project: Resident Operated Mobility Devices
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Interior components of a patient-care unit: Impact on the experiences of children undergoing treatment for eating disorders
Author(s): Sheth, S.N.
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The Effect of Environmental Design on Reducing Nursing and Medication Errors in Acute Care Settings
2007
The Center for Health Design CHER
Report
Author(s): Chaudhury, H.P., Mahmood, A.P.
Added October 2012
The value of protective isolation procedures in cardiac allograft recipients
1989
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Journal Article
Issue 4
Volume 47
Pages 539-44; discussion 544-5
Author(s): Walsh, T.R., Guttendorf, J., Dummer, S., Hardesty, R.L., Armitage, J.M., Kormos, R.L., Griffith, B.P.
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Transforming Care at the Bedside: Designing New Care Systems in an Age of Complexity
2006
Journal Of Nursing Care Quality
Journal Article
Issue 2
Volume 21
Pages 143-150
Author(s): Viney, M., Batcheller, J., Houston, S., Belcik, K.
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Influence of nursing-unit design on the activities and subjective feelings of nursing personnel
1970
Environment and Behavior
Journal Article
Issue 3
Volume 2
Pages 303-334
Author(s): Trites, D.K., Galbraith, F.D., Sturdavant, M., Leckwart, J.F.
Performed intensive comparisons of the effect of radial, double-corridor, and single-corridor nursing units on the activities and feelings of nursing personnel, using multiple linear regression methods to remove as many extraneous factors as possible from comparisons. The radial design was found to be superior to the double corridor, and superior to the single corridor in most instances. Nursing...
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Altering the NICU and measuring infants' responses
2000
Acta Paediatrica
Journal Article
Issue 5
Volume 89
Pages 577-81
Author(s): Slevin, M., Farrington, N., Duffy, G., Daly, L., Murphy, J.F.
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Caregivers' Evaluation on Hospitalized Children's Preferences Concerning Garden and Ward
2005
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
Journal Article
Issue 2
Volume 4
Pages 331-338
Author(s): Said, I., Salleh, S.S., Abu Bakar, M.S., Mohamad, I.
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Pediatric Art Preferences: Countering the "One-Size-Fits-All" Approach
2009
Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Journal Article
Issue 4
Volume 2
Pages 46-61
Author(s): Nanda, U., Chanaud, C.M., Brown, L., Hart, R., Hathorn, K.
Viewing art has been shown to enhance the recovery process in adult patients by reducing stress and anxiety. Research also suggests that nature-themed visual images are preferred in high-stress adult healthcare environments. However, minimal research exists linking the viewing of art to outcomes and preferences in children.
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Noninvasive ventilation in children
2002
European Respiratory Journal
Journal Article
Volume 20
Pages 1332-1342
Author(s): Norregaard, O.
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High versus low density special care units: Impact on the behavior of elderly residents with dementia
1998
Canadian Journal on Aging
Journal Article
Author(s): Morgan, D.G., Stewart, N.J.
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Control of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in burned patients
1992
Surgical Research Communications
Journal Article
Issue 1
Volume 12
Pages 61-67
Author(s): McManus, A.T., Mason, A.D.J., McManus, W.F., Pruitt, B.A.J.
Invasive burn wound sepsis with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major concern in burn patient care settings. It is difficult to treat and may cause high mortality among patients with extensive burn wounds. Therefore, one primary goal of burn care is to prevent colonization and infection of P. aeruginosa. Patient colonization refers to the isolation of the targeted pathogen (organism) from the patient (e.g., sputum, wound surface, urine, and stool).
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Role of ventilation in airborne transmission of infectious agents in the built environment - a multidisciplinary systematic review
2007
Indoor Air
Journal Article
Issue 1
Volume 17
Pages 2-18
Author(s): Li, Y., Leung, G.M., Tang, J.W., Yang, X., Chao, C.Y., Lin, J.Z., Lu, J.W., Nielsen, P.V., Niu, J., Qian, H., Sleigh, A.C., Su, H.J., Sundell, J., Wong, T.W., Yuen, P.L.
The early 2000s saw the surfacing of severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS, the large-scale return of tuberculosis or TB, an influenza pandemic, and the intentional dispersion of diseases like anthrax – all of which are highly infectious airborne diseases. Authors noted that densely populated urban areas and offices, schools, other buildings, aircraft, and other mass transport vehicles (where people spent most of their time) were ideal for the transmission of SARS.
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Windows in the workplace: Sunlight, view, and occupational stress
1998
Environment and Behavior
Journal Article
Issue 6
Volume 30
Pages 739-762
Author(s): Leather, P., Pyrgas, M., Beale, D., Lawrence, C.
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Effectiveness of sleep management strategies for residents of aged care facilities: findings of a systematic review
2006
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Journal Article
Issue 10
Volume 15
Pages 1267-1275
Author(s): Koch, S., Haesler, E., Tiziani, A., Wilson, J.
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Family presence during resuscitation: a randomised controlled trial of the impact of family presence
2006
Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Journal Article
Issue 4
Volume 8
Pages 139-147
Author(s): Holzhauser, K., Finucane, J., De Vries, S.M.
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Contribution of the intensive care unit environment to sleep disruption in mechanically ventilated patients and healthy subjects
2003
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Journal Article
Issue 5
Volume 167
Pages 708-15
Author(s): Gabor, J.Y., Cooper, A.B., Crombach, S.A., Lee, B., Kadikar, N., Bettger, H.E., Hanly, P.J.
Patients in the ICU often experience sleep disruptions. Although the potential reasons for this disturbed sleep are attributed to patient care activities, noise, effects of medications, the illness itself, and other equipment-related issues, noise has always been considered to be the main factor in the ICU that disrupts sleep.
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The impact of adverse patient occurrences on hospital costs in the pediatric intensive care unit
2001
Critical Care Medicine
Journal Article
Issue 1
Volume 29
Pages 169-174
Author(s): Dominguez, T.E., Rene, C., Costarino, A.T., Jr
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A tale of two countries: environmental impacts on social participation after spinal cord injury
2002
Spinal Cord
Journal Article
Issue 7
Volume 40
Pages 351-362
Author(s): Dijkers, M., Yavuzer, G., Ergin, S., Weitzenkamp, D., Whiteneck, G.G.
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Sleep of 1- and 2-Year-old Children in Intensive Care
1996
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing
Journal Article
Issue 1
Volume 19
Pages 17-31
Author(s): Corser, N.C.
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