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EDAC 1.1
An Introduction to Evidence Based Design
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Health Care
Professional
10/22/2010

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How can facility design impact healthcare outcomes?

Definition
  1. The building itself can help to reduce the stress experienced by patients, their families, and the teams caring for them.                             
  2. Design can help produce the preferred healthcare outcomes being sought and mitigate untoward results.

 

Term

What are the 7 current trends influencing healthcare in the United States today?

Definition
  1. Public focus on Quality and Safety
  2. Reimbursement Challenges
  3. Aging Population and caregiver shortages
  4. Health Information technology
  5. Genomics and technology
  6. Emergency Room saturation and disaster preparedness
  7. Sustainable healthcare
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Term
How can EBD positively influence these challenges?
Definition

EBD can positively influence these challenges by designing healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors, improve patient and staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency and support the latest advances such as HIT and genomics.

Term

Select the best answer:

 

Evidence based design is the process of basing decisions about ________ on credible research to achieve the best possible results.

 

  1. patient outcomes
  2. the built environment
  3. nursing staff-to-patient ratios
Definition
  1. patient outcomes
  2. the built environment
  3. nursing staff-to-patient ratios
Term

Which of the following clinical and safety outcomes are not typically affected by the design of the physical healthcare environment?

 

  1. medical errors
  2. adverse reactions to drugs
  3. hospital acquired infections
Definition
  1. medical errors
  2. adverse reactions to drugs
  3. hospital acquired infections
Term

T/F:  Employee turn over rates may be influenced by the physical design of a healthcare facility.

Definition

 

 

 

 

 

True

Term

The goal of the business case for EBD is to determine how healthcare facility investments contribute to improvements in patient care quality and the safety and satisfaction of both patients and staff while positively enhancing:

 

  1. the bottom line
  2. the physical design
  3. work-force efficiency
Definition
  1. the bottom line
  2. the physical design
  3. work-force efficiency
Term

Central to making the business case for physical design innovations is the need to balance ________ against ongoing operating savings and revenue enhancements.

 

  1. patient outcomes
  2. one-time construction costs
  3. longer design and construction timelines.
Definition
  1. patient outcomes
  2. one-time construction costs
  3. longer design and construction timelines.
Term

Staff outcomes that may not be influenced by the design of the physical healthcare environment are:

 

  1. turnover
  2. efficiency
  3. personality
Definition
  1. turnover
  2. efficiency
  3. personality
Term
What is the world's first hospital to be designed around patient safety?
Definition

 

 

 

St. Joseph's Community Hospital

West Bend, WI

Term

At the core of EBD is a fundamental shift in the way healthcare organizations think about, deliver and manage ________.

Definition

 

 

 

 

Buildings

Term

What is the special design feature at Bronson Methodist Hospital?

Definition

 

 

 

 

Central Garden Atrium

Term
What is EBD?
Definition
CHD defines evidence based design as the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Term
What are 7 key trends impacting Healthcare today?
Definition

1. Public Focus on Quality and Safety

 

2. Reimbursement challenges

 

3. Aging population and care giver shortage.

 

4. Health Information Techonology

 

5. Genommics and Techonology

 

6. Emergency Room Saturation and Disaster Preparedness.

 

7. Sustainable Healthcare.

Term
What is the Pebble Project?
Definition
It is a joint research effort between the CHD and Healthcare Providers. The purpose of the work is to cause a ripple effect in the HC industry by demonstrating how HC organizations have improved their specific outcomes by using the EBD process.
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