Evidence Base Design Essay
Evidence-base design has become a well-known strategy in health and social care as a useful tool for improving patient and staff well-being, patient healing process, stress reduction and safety. The growth of a thorough and responsive architectural evidence base has always aims to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in evidence-based design.
The Department of Health in 1999 started a database with funding from the old NHS Estates (Lawson & Phiri 2000). The Database was updated every year until 2004 when NHS Estate was reorganised in the Department of Health (Lawson & Phiri 2003). We are now aware of around a thousand relevant items of research. The evidence advocates that factors that the architect and designer has effect can make significant differences to patient satisfaction, quality of life, …show more content…
Similarly, Florence Nightingale had already suggested the significance of a view a century earlier, only based on her own personal observations:
‘ I have seen the most acute suffering produced from a patient not being able to see out of a window, I shall never forget patients over a bunch of bright-coloured flowers. People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by colour, and light we do know this, and that they have an actual physical effect.’ Nightingale, 1860
Another study shows that sunny aspects have a better effect than dull ones. Improved lighting conditions reduce the length of stay for patients compared to poorly lit rooms by an average of 3 days. Intense sunlight in hospital rooms significantly decreases stress, pain and the need for pain medication by 20-22 percent.( Beauchemin and Hays 1998). Others have looked at the organisation of space and the arrangement of furniture, for example in mental
The Department of Health in 1999 started a database with funding from the old NHS Estates (Lawson & Phiri 2000). The Database was updated every year until 2004 when NHS Estate was reorganised in the Department of Health (Lawson & Phiri 2003). We are now aware of around a thousand relevant items of research. The evidence advocates that factors that the architect and designer has effect can make significant differences to patient satisfaction, quality of life, …show more content…
Similarly, Florence Nightingale had already suggested the significance of a view a century earlier, only based on her own personal observations:
‘ I have seen the most acute suffering produced from a patient not being able to see out of a window, I shall never forget patients over a bunch of bright-coloured flowers. People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by colour, and light we do know this, and that they have an actual physical effect.’ Nightingale, 1860
Another study shows that sunny aspects have a better effect than dull ones. Improved lighting conditions reduce the length of stay for patients compared to poorly lit rooms by an average of 3 days. Intense sunlight in hospital rooms significantly decreases stress, pain and the need for pain medication by 20-22 percent.( Beauchemin and Hays 1998). Others have looked at the organisation of space and the arrangement of furniture, for example in mental