Layout Planning in Healthcare Facilities: A Systematic Review

Benitez, Guilherme Brittes; Silveira, Giovani J.C. da; Fogliatto, Flávio Sanson

doi:10.1177/1937586719855336

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“…Construction of new or renovation of existing health centers requires a large budget and a long time. Therefore, layout planning is a critical task as layout designs must be developed based on a well-studied strategic plan while considering the effect on customer experience and service quality; confusing layouts can add to customer' anxiety [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. The team used a combination of the Process (functionality) layout, cellular manufacturing, and cellular layout.…”

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confidence: 99%

Recreational, Fitness and Health Center: Facility Layout Design Case Study

Tashtoush

Melero

Duarte

et al. 2020

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Systems Engineers focus on a systematic development process for any project of interest, aiming to proceed from a concept to a final successful product. They consider business operation, management, and engineering technicality. Our team was giving a chance to develop and improve a real-life system, starting from the design stage by implementing regulation, improvements, and integrating new technologies. Our focus was on designing a new local Health Center that provides recreational, fitness, and health care services. Facility design and logistics are considered as something that can "make it or break it" for businesses because they affect the customer's perception, attractiveness, comfort, and accessibility levels, which are essential business success factors. Any business type such as warehouse, customer service, or food distribution, apply different facility design techniques. Our team designed a facility layout, which meets the state, city, and American with Disabilities Act regulations, and provides the local community with a state-of-art health facility. A health club layout design considers multiple factors, such as type and number of equipment, facility location, available amenities, human factors, user safety, and use frequency. All these factors had been included to design the 50,000-ft2 and 2-floors layout of the health center facility. The team presented 2D and 3D layout designs that comply with the imposed constraints and requirements while accommodating users' needs and confront.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recreational, Fitness and Health Center: Facility Layout Design Case Study

Tashtoush

Melero

Duarte

et al. 2020

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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“…Whilst Ulrich et al (2010) highlight the relationships of how healthcare built environments can impact patients and their families, staff and organizational outcomes. In addition, a number of systematic reviews have been conducted around a particular space, care setting or a particular patient category, for example Bartlett (2013) reviewed research evidence related to design features that can be used to create an optimal inpatient psychiatric patient, whilst Taylor et al (2018) and Voigt et al (2018) have reviewed evidence related to the benefits of private-patient rooms, and Benitez, et al (2019) conducted a systematic review on layout planning in Healthcare Facilities.…”

Section: Enhancing Ebd In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ulrich et al (2010) highlight the relationships of how healthcare built environments can impact patients and their families, staff and organisational outcomes. In addition, a number of systematic reviews have been conducted around a particular space, care setting or a particular patient category; for example, Linebaugh (2013) reviewed research evidence related to design features that can be used to create an optimal inpatient psychiatric patient, Taylor et al (2018) and Voigt et al (2018) have reviewed evidence related to the benefits of private-patient rooms and Benitez et al (2019) conducted a systematic review on layout planning in healthcare facilities. When considered alongside the many individual pieces of published EBD research scattered across number of publications, such systematic reviews seem to be more popular among both researchers and practitioners and have created an increased awareness about EBD through their comprehensive approach.…”

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Sources and flow of healthcare built environment design evidence

Wanigarathna

Sherratt

Price

et al. 2021

BEPAM

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PurposeA substantial amount of research argues that built environmental interventions can improve the outcomes of patients and other users of healthcare facilities, supporting the concept of evidence-based design (EBD). However, the sources of such evidence and its flow into healthcare design are less well understood. This paper aims to provide insights to both the sources and flow of EBD used in three healthcare projects, to reveal practicalities of use and the relationships between them in practice.Design/methodology/approachThree healthcare case study projects provided empirical data on the design of a number of different elements. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify the source and flow of evidence used in this design, which was subsequently quantised to reveal the dominant patterns therein.FindingsHealthcare design teams use evidence from various sources, the knowledge and experience of the members of the design team being the most common due to both ease of access and thus flow. Practice-based research and peer-reviewed published research flow both directly and indirectly into the design process, whilst collaborations with researchers and research institutions nurture the credibility of the latter.Practical implicationsThe findings can be used to enhance activities that aim to design, conduct and disseminate future EBD research to improve their flow to healthcare designers.Originality/valueThis research contributes to understandings of EBD by exploring the flow of research from various sources in conflation and within real-life environments.

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“…Apple's layout procedure is also an effective facility layout planning tool which considers primary parameters related to the facility layout. It focuses on coordination of departments in a particular flow and analyzes the interdepartmental satisfaction level, which in result gave the best-suited layout output (Benitez et al, 2019). This procedure can also be applied to a multi-floor plan with the manually generated space-filling curve.…”

Section: Review On Facility Planning In the Health Care Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a Strategic Sustainable Facility Plan for a Hospital Layout Using Electre and Apples Procedure

K.E.K

Kandasamy

Nadeem

et al. 2020

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Today healthcare globally is growing at a rapid pace and despite the huge technological advancement, healthcare still faces primitive challenges and hence results in the poor service and facility to the needy. Layout planning acts as one major reason which requires improvements for the effective and efficient working of the healthcare facilities. This research aims at optimizing several quantitative criteria related to economic, technology and society which are taken into consideration for the decision-making during the evaluation, analysing and selection of the best layout for an existing healthcare facility. Critical areas for the improvement were found out using statistical analysis based on a survey questionnaire and Apple’s layout procedure is utilised to design the different possible layouts for an efficient facility. The seven criteria namely inter-departmental satisfactory level, the average distance travelled and the average time required for staff flow, the average distance travelled and the average time required for patient flow, the average distance travelled and the average time required for material flow were taken into consideration. The ELECTRE methodology was used as multi-criteria decision making based on decided seven criteria for comparing the different layout by methodical and orderly thinking.

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Layout Planning in Healthcare Facilities: A Systematic Review

Cited by 24 publications

References 94 publications

Recreational, Fitness and Health Center: Facility Layout Design Case Study

Recreational, Fitness and Health Center: Facility Layout Design Case Study

Sources and flow of healthcare built environment design evidence

Developing a Strategic Sustainable Facility Plan for a Hospital Layout Using Electre and Apples Procedure

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