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  1. Content Article
    Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Healthcare Facility Design is the third in a series of AHRQ publications that summarise the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research's (AHRQ's) investments in patient safety research as a pathway toward safer care. This research has shown that optimising the physical, functional, and aesthetic details of healthcare facilities (e.g., units, rooms, equipment, logistics and technologies) can improve patient outcomes, reduce injuries and hospital-associated infections, and increase provider satisfaction.
  2. Content Article
    This infographic on Good Work Design by the Chartered Institute for Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) outlines how a three-phase, human-centric approach to designing work can result in work that people enjoy and can excel at. It lists the elements of what good work looks like to ensure both the organisation and its workers can improve performance. To go alongside the infographic, the authors presented a webinar examining how to design good work and looking at the some of the strategies involved.
  3. Content Article
    The aim of Royal Surrey's Human Factors & Team Resource Management Programme is to raise the awareness, understanding and application of the science of human factors within healthcare to improve staff and patient safety and wellbeing. Their ambition is to ensure their staff are familiar with the term 'human factors', understand what it is, how to recognise when HF dynamics affect system performance and safety, and know where to go to find out more. Take a look at their website, their programme and human factors projects.
  4. Content Article
    Because hospitals exist for a long time and are expensive to build and to operate, it is crucial to use the abundant, available empirical evidence to guide design. “Evidence-based design” has documented how to make hospitals safer and less stressful. This article, published in The Conversation, looks at the challenges involved.
  5. Content Article
    In April 2002, St Joseph’s Community Hospital of West Bend, a member of SynergyHealth, brought together leaders in healthcare and systems engineering to develop a set of safety-driven facility design recommendations and principles that would guide the design of a new hospital facility focused on patient safety. By introducing safety-driven innovations into the facility design process, environmental designers and healthcare leaders will be able to make significant contributions to patient safety. Request permission to view the resource in full via the link below.
  6. Content Article
    Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics, telemedicine, electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. But it’s not the only one. At Rotterdam Eye Hospital, hospital administrators have found that through their ongoing design-thinking programme, lower-tech measures can also improve health care. Simple measures such as building a more intuitive website, replacing harsh fluorescent lighting and cold linoleum floors with softer lighting and wood parquet, and giving children and pediatric ophthalmologists matching T-shirts have reduced patient fears. Addressing patients’ fears is important because fear can make an eye operation difficult or even impossible. Moreover, less fear translates into greater patient satisfaction. In an article for Harvard Business Review, Dirk Deichmann and Roel van der Heijde explain how now Rotterdam Eye Hospital has integrated a measure that is even lower-tech: better conversations...
  7. Content Article
    Despite decades of research into patient falls, there is a dearth of evidence about how the design of patient rooms influences falls. This multi-year study aims to better understand how patient room design can increase stability during ambulation, serving as a fall protection strategy for frail and/or elderly patients.
  8. Content Article
    This article by Lauren McGIll in The Walrus looks at how design changes to the trauma bay at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto are saving lives. Lack of intentional design in hospitals, new technologies and a culture that celebrates adaptability all contribute to what the author describes as "a piecemeal approach" to emergency medicine workspaces. The outcome of this is ultimately higher mortality rates as staff do not have an optimum working environment. The article describes a research project set up in 2015 by doctors Christopher Hicks and Andrew Petrosoniak, which aimed to identify and remove latent hazards and obstacles that cost trauma staff time in emergency situations. They redesigned the trauma bay at St Michael's hospital as a result of their findings, and early reports are that dramatic rescues have been possible thanks to the new layout. Petrosoniak says, “You cannot remove the stress of someone dying in front of you, but we can remove the stress of not being able to find equipment.” Further reading Trauma Resuscitation Using in situ Simulation Team Training (TRUST) study: latent safety threat evaluation using framework analysis and video review (BMJ Quality & Safety) Study protocol for a framework analysis using video review to identify latent safety threats: trauma resuscitation using in situ simulation team training (TRUST) (BMJ Open) Stress Testing the Resuscitation Room: Latent Threats to Patient Safety Identified During Interprofessional In Situ Simulation in a Canadian Academic Emergency Department (AEM Education and Training) Health professionals' experience of teamwork education in acute hospital settings: a systematic review of qualitative literature (JBI Evidence Synthesis)
  9. Content Article
    Design is a structured process for identifying problems and developing and evaluating user-focussed solutions. It has been successfully used to transform products, services, systems and even entire organisations. Based on the extensive experience of the aviation, military and nuclear industries, it is clear that effective design thinking can facilitate the delivery of products, services, processes and environments that are intuitive, simple to understand, simple to use, convenient, comfortable and consequently less likely to lead to error and accidents. Confusing, complex and unwieldy designs, which are all too often present in healthcare, are at best less effective than they could be. At worst, they are potentially dangerous to medical staff or the patient - or both. The contribution of design to improving safety in the context of medical systems is an area which remains relatively unexplored.  This scoping review is a joint report from the Robens Centre for Health Ergonomics at the University of Surrey; The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art; and The Cambridge Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge to identify how the effective use of design could help to reduce medical accidents.
  10. Content Article
    Presentation from Patricia Young, Design Specialist (Built environment).
  11. Content Article
    This article from the book 'Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses' looks at the impact of the architectural design of a hospital facility on patient safety. This includes considering the design of hospital technology and equipment. The authors highlight the ways in which physical design can make healthcare systems and processes safer for patients and staff. They also identify indirect benefits of system design that may contribute to this, including improved staff wellbeing and making patients feel safer while in care environments.
  12. Content Article
    When SynergyHealth, St. Joseph’s Hospital of West Bend, Wisconsin, USA, decided to relocate and build an 82-bed acute care facility, there was an opportunity to design a hospital that focused on patient safety. Hospital leaders believed if a facility design process was “engineered properly,” it would enhance patient safety and create a patient safe culture; however, they found little information to give the direction. To help plan the new facility, a national learning lab was conducted, drawing from patient safety in the available literature; inviting experts from the healthcare profession and other fields, including transportation, spacecraft design, and systems engineering; and involving the hospital's board members, staff, physicians, and facility design team. In this case study, John G. Reiling describes the process used by St. Joseph to design a new hospital around patient safety, and identify and discuss safety design principles, providing examples of their application at St. Joseph’s new facility. Finally, recommendations are made for the design of all health care systems, including new facilities, remodeling, and additions.
  13. Content Article
    In 2002 the UK Department of Health and the Design Council jointly commissioned a scoping study to deliver ideas and practical recommendations for a design approach to reduce the risk of medical error and improve patient safety across the National Health Service (NHS). The research was undertaken by the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge, the Robens Institute for Health Ergonomics at the University of Surrey and the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art. The research team employed diverse methods to gather evidence from literature, key stakeholders, and experts from within healthcare and other safety-critical industries in order to ascertain how the design of systems—equipment and other physical artefacts, working practices and information—could contribute to patient safety. Despite the multiplicity of activities and methodologies employed, what emerged from the research was a very consistent picture. This convergence pointed to the need to better understand the healthcare system, including the users of that system, as the context into which specific design solutions must be delivered. Without that broader understanding there can be no certainty that any single design will contribute to reducing medical error and the consequential cost thereof.
  14. Content Article
    There is a lack of awareness regarding the pervasive influence of the built environment on caregiving activities, and how its design could reduce risks for patients and providers. This article from Joseph et al. presents a narrative review summarising key findings that link health care facility design to key targeted safety outcomes: health care–associated infections, falls, and medication errors. It describes how facility design should be considered in conjunction with quality improvement legislation; projects under way in health systems; and the work of guideline-setting organizations, funding agencies, industry, and educational institutions. The article also charts a path forward that consolidates existing challenges and suggests what can be done about them to create safe and high-quality healthcare environments.
  15. Content Article
    The purpose of this guide is to help leaders and managers in businesses and organisations make their office workspaces safe for staff returning to work and reduce the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. This process begins with putting together a competent team and undertaking a risk assessment and staff survey to inform decision-making. Businesses are encouraged to consider the workplace as a whole system so that in mitigating a risk in one part of the work system, unintended consequences are not created in another. For example, new ways of work lead to increased workload/stress and reduced collaborative working.
  16. Content Article
    As the number of COVID-19 hospital admissions gradually declines, policy attention is turning to how the NHS can restart some more routine activities. But doing this while living alongside COVID-19 will involve major practical challenges that will need to be overcome. This new discussion paper by Nigel Edwards looks at the realities the health and care systems will now begin to face.
  17. Content Article
    The first two steps in making any process more reliable are to standardize or simplify the process thus turning a desired action into a default action. Standardisation reduces reliance on short-term memory and allows those unfamiliar with new location to follow an already experienced standard process or design thus leading to safe and efficient work practices. This study from Price and Lu reports on research into healthcare facility design and identifies the drivers, barriers, priorities and potential areas that can inform the design process and the adoption of standardisation aimed at significantly improving patient care and safety as well as enhancing staff productivity. Interviews were held with architects, project managers, healthcare planners and contractors to elicit their views. An interview protocol was developed based on initial literature findings. This paper highlights the need to think more deeply about why space standardisation is needed and which benefits need to be captured from space standardisation. Meanwhile, hospitals and Trusts provide very different situations and contexts, such as the model of care, the patient s journey, medical technologies and demographics. Innovative solutions to the space standardization must be in response to the context being considered, but there are some generic principles and concepts that apply to most situations.
  18. Content Article
    Chartered Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors has come together with industry and maternity units to redesign birthing pools to ensure they are safe and ergonomical for users. Read the attached case study.
  19. Content Article
    This National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) booklet presents information concerning how better design can be used to make the dispensing process safer in community pharmacies, dispensing doctor practices and hospital pharmacies. There are a number of new factors that will impact on the dispensing process, such as: electronic prescription services; auto-id and automation technologies; more responsibilities for pharmacy technicians; and enhanced pharmacy services. These factors have been incorporated into these safer design recommendations Organisations, managers and healthcare workers involved in dispensing medicines should use this booklet as a resource to help introduce new initiatives to further minimise harms from medicines.
  20. Community Post
    At Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, they have introduced a 'Wobble room' . This is where staff can take time out, relax before heading back into clinical work again.
  21. Content Article
    Long dreary corridors, impersonal waiting rooms, the smell of disinfectant — hospitals tend to be anonymous and depressing places. Even if you’re just there as a visitor, you’re bound to wonder, “How can my friend recover in such an awful place? Will I get out of here without catching an infection?” But the transformation of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital suggests that it doesn’t have to be this way. Over the past 10 years, the hospital’s managers have transformed their institution from the usual, grim, human-repair shop into a bright and comforting place. By incorporating design thinking and design principles into their planning process, the hospital’s executives, supported by external designers, have turned the hospital into a showplace that has won a number of safety, quality, and design awards.
  22. News Article
    A nationwide effort in the US to improve and coordinate patient safety measures will strive to make a connection between workplace and patient safety. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) gave an update during its National Forum this week on the creation of a national patient safety plan intended to encourage better coordination of safety efforts. A key goal of the plan, expected to be released next year, was to emphasise the role of improving workforce safety. “In our view, too many systems have a separation between workforce safety and patient safety and yet we know the two are connected,” said Derek Feeley, President and CEO of IHI, in a briefing with reporters Monday before the start of the forum in Orlando, Florida. “Patient safety incidents are much less likely to occur when workers feel safe.” The steering committee developing the plan includes 27 organizations that range from patient advocates and professional societies to provider organizations and government representatives. The committee's plan hopes to target healthcare leaders and policymakers. Read full story Source: Fierce Healthcare, 10 December 2019
  23. Content Article
    Every clinical laboratory devotes considerable resources to Quality Control (QC). Recently, the advent of concepts such as Analytical Goals, Biological Variation, Six Sigma and Risk Management have generated a renewed interest in the way to perform QC. The objective of this book is to propose a roadmap for the application of an integrated QC protocol that ensures the safety of patient results in the everyday lab routine.
  24. Content Article
    This paper reviews recent research literature reporting the effects of hospital design on patient safety.
  25. Content Article
    The direction of hospital design is taking a turn for the practical as a surge of institutions are updating their infrastructure and responding to demands for more outpatient facilities. Beyond aesthetics, hospitals are seeking architectural updates that improve safety, patient and staff satisfaction, and friendliness to the environment. Infection control, lighting conditions, noise level, air quality, and patient room design are just some of the factors that are considered. 
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