hospitalsPurpose – The purpose of this article is to explore preference for privacy among people with different demographic and cultural backgrounds. In particular the study aims to investigate the effect of age, gender, previous experience of space and cultural background on people's chosen spatial...
Nightingale principles apply, he says: her field hospitals of the Crimean war are still cited. ‘You have to have a clean end and a dirty end, getting goods and materials in at one end and getting rid of waste materials at the other. You need sanitary facilities. And importantly, you ne...
Its main offerings include digital and mobile locking systems that operate without the need for batteries, providing enhanced security and convenience for various types of properties. The company primarily serves sectors such as residential properties, student housing, schools, hospitals, offices, utility...
Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has been documented in different circumstances and locations worldwide and is found to be highly communicable in healthcare settings [7], [8]. Airborne transmissions are not only limited to the SARS episode but also extend to nosocomial ...
Shame of the Crack Cocaine Wards; (1) Crime (2) We Think of Hospitals as Oases of Calm, Places to Heal the Body. Yet as a Disturbing Investigation by Tasha Kosviner Reveals, They Are Actually the Locations You Are Most Likely to Encounter Illicit Drugs and Violence. Worst of All Are ...
Natural ventilation is attractive due to its potential lower energy consumed by healthcare environments but maintaining steady/adequate airflow rates and thermal comfort is challenging in temperate countries. Although many contemporary hospitals use traditional windows for natural ventilation, there are ...
Materials and methods 330 patients with no pressure ulcer at the time of admission, no movement due to therapeutic interventions or movement only with assisting devices were selected through convenience sampling at orthopedic wards of hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti Univers...
After more than 150 years, sonic environments inside hospitals are still often uncomfortable, attracting the attention of researchers [2] due to the negative impacts on patients and staff. The effects for patients include sleep disturbance, cardiovascular response, increased length of stay, and increas...
“How to ask about patient satisfaction? The visual analogue scale is less vulnerable to confounding factors and ceiling effect than a symmetric Likert scale” reported on 150 patients from the five largest tertiary hospitals in Finland, who were evaluated after their stay with visual analogue ...
Yet, the electricity required to operate mechanical PV systems could be a drawback for their sustainable and wide scale adoption in hospitals. This downside of mechanised PV system inspired the development of a zero-energy version called natural personalised ventilation (NPV) [23]. The NPV system...