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Why is it important to establish an interdisciplinary project team at the beginning of the EBD
Process. - ✔✔✔ - Forming the project team at the beginning ensures that all the stakeholders
participate in the creation of, and collectively understand, the project visions and goals.
What expectations are important to clarify among the members of the team, and why? - ✔✔✔
- Expectations should be clear regarding how long team members should participate, their
decision-making authority and process, and project deliverable responsibilities. Establishing and
managing expectations will go a long way toward keeping the lines of communication open and
fostering a collaborative working environment.
What can staff and front line managers contribute to the interdisciplinary project team? - ✔✔✔
- Ideas derived from hands-on experience
What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the United States? - ✔✔✔ - 1. Focus
on quality, safety, and satisfaction.
2. Healthcare cost and reimbursement.
3. Environmental safety and sustainability.
4. Healthcare worker safety and caregiver shortages.
5. Aging population.
6. Health information and emerging technology.
7. Healthy living and wellness.
8. Decentralized healthcare, ambulatory care, and care at home.
9. Disaster preparedness and emergency department saturation.
10. Genomics and predictive health.
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How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by the current trends? - ✔✔✔ -
EBD can positively influence these challenges by designing healing and therapeutic
environments that help reduce errors, improve patient ad staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency
and support the latest technological advances such as HIT and genomics.
What is the definition of evidence-based design? - ✔✔✔ - The process of basing decisions
about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
What are the eight steps of the EBD process? - ✔✔✔ - 1. Define evidence-based goals and
objectives
2. Find sources for relevant evidence.
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence.
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts.
5. Develop a hypothesis.
6. Collect baseline performance measures.
7. Monitor implementation of design and construction.
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results.
Why has the construction of a new building been viewed as a sunk cost? - ✔✔✔ - There is little
association between investment and outcomes.
Which one of the following clinical and safety outcomes are typically NOT affected by the design
of the physical healthcare environment? - ✔✔✔ - Adverse Reactions to drugs.
What is the primary goal of writing a business case? - ✔✔✔ - to demonstrate how facility
investments can enhance safety
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To make the business case for design innovations, what needs to be balanced against ongoing
operation savings and enhanced revenue? - ✔✔✔ - one-time construction cost.
What are the six typical classifications for inpatient hospitals? - ✔✔✔ - 1. ownership
2. length of stay
3. type of service
4. public access
5. location
6. size
What are the five other types of inpatient hospitals? - ✔✔✔ - 1. teaching or academic hospitals
2. critical access hospitals
3. doctor-owned specialty hospitals
4. healthcare systems
5. healthcare networks
Name five types of hospital-based outpatient services. - ✔✔✔ - clinical services
surgical services
women's health centers
emergency services
home healthcare centers
Name five types of freestanding facilities. - ✔✔✔ - walk-in clinics
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urgent-care centers and emergicenters
surgicenters
mobile, medical, diagnostic, and screening services
emergency medial technicians
List the nine key stakeholders in healthcare facilities. - ✔✔✔ - board of trustees and leadership
researchers and designers
vendor/suppliers
patients
caregivers/family/visitors
staff
community partners
community organizations
donors
Why is it important to consider the perspective(s) of hospital staff when designing a healthcare
facility? - ✔✔✔ - Staff can provide insight into the design of effective and efficient facilities
based on their day-to day experience of what does and does not work. Fro example,
housekeeping staff are intimately aware of what colors and textures show dirt easily and wear
prematurely, while clinical staff can provide input about the effective layout of supply and
equipment spaces, work-surface heights and locations, as well as actual care provision areas;
information technology staff can help forecast space requirements for future equipment needs.
Why is it important to consider the perspective(s) of community-based organizations or
associations in the design of healthcare facility? - ✔✔✔ - Many associations are in a position to
provide expert advice for the care of their constituencies. For example, the national Association
of the Deaf is available to consult on design interventions that help to accommodate the needs
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