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- Title
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL HOSPITAL DESIGN.
- Authors
VELKOVA KRSTEV, Angela; IBRAHIMI, Arbresha
- Abstract
Human lives are daily in the balance with hospitals. Hospital patients, their families, and their hospital experience are often the focal point of their lives - where their child was born, their loved ones died, where they received appropriate care and their lives were saved, received appropriate treatment or care to overcome an illness. The hospital is an institution that is part of people's daily lives and is a common topic of storytelling among generations. Hospitals are institutions that, through cutting-edge medical advances, alleviate suffering and bring healing and even new life to those who, even years ago, had no hope of it. The importance of hospital care will not diminish in the future. However, changes in the social and economic environments in which hospitals operate, as well as medical and technological advances, require hospitals to be as transformative as the future evolves. The long cycle of design and construction is often overshadowed by the rapid cycle of innovation in medicine and technology. As a result, some buildings are partially obsolete when opened, and almost every health structure will be obsolete in some way before their lifespan. Design flexibility is a way to reduce the inconvenience and cost of these unavoidable disorders. Each design should have planning zones for future growth.
- Subjects
HOSPITAL care; ECONOMIC change; DO-not-resuscitate orders; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL innovations; HOSPITAL patients
- Publication
Vizione, 2019, Issue 33, p433
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article