2022
DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2022.947211
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Preventing the spread of COVID-19 through environmental design in Thai community hospitals

Abstract: The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 has had a tremendous negative impact on healthcare facilities, especially public hospitals. Thai community hospitals serve as primary care for COVID-19 patients. However, many hospital buildings were constructed in the 1990s and are now becoming outdated. Community hospitals faced many difficulties during the Thailand COVID-19 outbreak. To identify these difficulties this study focused on the physical settings of the community hospital’s outpatient departments (OPD) betwe… Show more

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“…(2) Step 2: medical staff interviews. The interviews were analysed using content analysis (Corbin and Strauss, 2015;Waroonkun and Prugsiganont, 2022). The researcher transcribed the interviews from the audio recordings and divided the transcript text into meaning units.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…(2) Step 2: medical staff interviews. The interviews were analysed using content analysis (Corbin and Strauss, 2015;Waroonkun and Prugsiganont, 2022). The researcher transcribed the interviews from the audio recordings and divided the transcript text into meaning units.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Step 1: building observation . Walk-through observation was adopted as a tool for this step (Waroonkun and Prugsiganont, 2022; Geng et al , 2021; Pilosof, 2021; Fronczek-Munter and Prugsiganont, 2018). Data were collected through photographs and architectural building plans.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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