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Healthcare architects favor private hospital rooms

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, September 8, 2006

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In an effort to curb medical errors and improve patient care, the American Institute of Architects 2006 guidelines urge U.S. hospitals to provide private rooms for patients. Doctors, hospital administrators, infection control experts, engineers and architects made up the panel, which advises the government.

Private rooms, along with being preferred by patients, the panel says, would also reduce the risk of misidentifying patients and the risk of spreading disease and illness. That improved patient satisfaction, the panel hopes, would reduce hospitalization time and therefore cut costs, as well.

Past design recommendations are already used as the basis for regulations in 42 states. New guidelines are published every four years.

Sources: The Associated Press and Reuters



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