Boston University’s The Brink: How the Design of Hospitals Impacts Patient Treatment and Recovery

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If you’re going into hospital for treatment, you want the best: the finest doctors, the latest medicines, the most-advanced surgical techniques. But the success of your care could also come down to something much more mundane than medical or technical wizardry: the location of your room. Land in an out-of-sight intensive care room and your chances of bouncing back tumble versus getting placed opposite the nursing station—you might even be more likely to die. Other aspects of your hospital room’s design—the position of the bed, the location of the sink, whether there’s a window—may also shape your recovery.

Poor hospital architecture and design could be keeping you laid up, but it doesn’t have to be that way, says Diana C. Anderson, a Boston University geriatrician who is also an expert on hospital design. She studies healthcare facilities with the goal of raising awareness of the potential for the built space to influence care and recovery.

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