Humanizing Where We Heal: An Examination of Healthcare Aesthetics and Evidence-Based Hospital Design

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dc.contributor.advisorMarcum, James
dc.contributor.authorSpeciale, Zachary
dc.contributor.departmentMedical Humanities.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-06T13:49:17Z
dc.date.available2021-01-06T13:49:17Z
dc.date.copyright2020
dc.date.issued2021-01-06
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how the aesthetics and overall design of a patient’s healing environment affects his/her healthcare experience. The industrialization of the modern hospital and the business of medicine has polluted what it means to provide holistic, patient-centered care. The emergence of evidence-based design provides a chance to re-center medicine by adopting a humanistic understanding of medicine that thoroughly examines patients’ needs and the specific design factors that are supportive to these needs. Through a meta-analysis, the themes consistent among the current literature are synthesized to clarify the role healthcare aesthetics and hospital design have on patient experience. While patient experience is often a complex, ambiguous factor in medicine, evidence-based design ultimately fosters a healthcare environment that integrates the patient into the fabric of the healing space.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/11165
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.titleHumanizing Where We Heal: An Examination of Healthcare Aesthetics and Evidence-Based Hospital Designen_US
dc.titleHumanizing Where We Heal: An Examination of Healthcare Aesthetics and Evidence-Based Hospital Designen_US
dc.titleHumanizing Where We Heal: An Examination of Healthcare Aesthetics and Evidence-Based Hospital Designen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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