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Sustainable and healthy hospitals. How to measure physical qualities?
Context. Healthcare facilities are complex building types due to the different users, the continuous needs of transformation the relevant integrated technologies and systems, and the building’s role as Public Health promoter. They are energy demanding systems active 24 h per day seven days per week. These kind of facilities have the objective of decreasing building energy use, providing a comfortable and healthy environment, and increasing productivity for occupants. Evidence Based Design (EBD) researches clearly show that specific physical features are able to improve patient satisfaction, enhance staff productivity and reduce patient length of stay resulting in considerable economic advantages for the hospital organization. Research gap. Within the wider framework of Sustainable Development Goals, there is the growing demand for improving overall quality, efficiency and sustainability of hospitals and several methodologies have been developed in order to evaluate, assess, and measure it. Among international recognized quality assessment tools (i.e. Joint Commission International), great importance is given to organizational performances or clinical outcomes but very few actions are available to hospital managers for understanding and improving the physical assets also in terms of sustainability. Objective. The aim is to critically review the existing assessment tools that evaluate hospital facilities and critically identify in which terms they are able to measure health or sustainability outcomes. Methods. A literature search has been conducted within relevant scientific databases. Forty-four tools or rating systems have been extracted from full-text assessment and citation snowballing from the collected documents. Exclusion criteria and time variables allowed to include 13 assessment tools for the evaluation of hospital built environment and organization during its operation phase. The percentage and the content of health or sustainability-related criteria have been compared and further discussed. Results. ...
Sustainable and healthy hospitals. How to measure physical qualities?
Context. Healthcare facilities are complex building types due to the different users, the continuous needs of transformation the relevant integrated technologies and systems, and the building’s role as Public Health promoter. They are energy demanding systems active 24 h per day seven days per week. These kind of facilities have the objective of decreasing building energy use, providing a comfortable and healthy environment, and increasing productivity for occupants. Evidence Based Design (EBD) researches clearly show that specific physical features are able to improve patient satisfaction, enhance staff productivity and reduce patient length of stay resulting in considerable economic advantages for the hospital organization. Research gap. Within the wider framework of Sustainable Development Goals, there is the growing demand for improving overall quality, efficiency and sustainability of hospitals and several methodologies have been developed in order to evaluate, assess, and measure it. Among international recognized quality assessment tools (i.e. Joint Commission International), great importance is given to organizational performances or clinical outcomes but very few actions are available to hospital managers for understanding and improving the physical assets also in terms of sustainability. Objective. The aim is to critically review the existing assessment tools that evaluate hospital facilities and critically identify in which terms they are able to measure health or sustainability outcomes. Methods. A literature search has been conducted within relevant scientific databases. Forty-four tools or rating systems have been extracted from full-text assessment and citation snowballing from the collected documents. Exclusion criteria and time variables allowed to include 13 assessment tools for the evaluation of hospital built environment and organization during its operation phase. The percentage and the content of health or sustainability-related criteria have been compared and further discussed. Results. ...
Sustainable and healthy hospitals. How to measure physical qualities?
A. Brambilla (author) / A. Rebecchi (author) / S. Capolongo (author) / M. Jevtic (author) / Brambilla, A. / Rebecchi, A. / Capolongo, S. / Jevtic, M.
2020-01-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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