Designing for wellbeing: realizing benefits for patients through best practice hospital design

医疗设施的环境设计已被证明直接影响患者及其家属的健康。设计不良的环境会加剧患者的焦虑和压力，降低他们的医疗体验。为支持患者的健康而设计的环境可以改善健康结果。基于澳大利亚在当代医院设计方面的国际领导地位，该项目旨在评估、优先考虑和制定最佳策略，以实现环境设计因素的好处，这些因素对患者和家庭取得积极成果贡献最大。它的目的是通过对澳大利亚新儿科医院的全面比较案例研究分析来实现这一目标。

The environmental design of healthcare facilities has been shown to directly affect the wellbeing of patients and their families. Poorly designed environments exacerbate patient anxiety and stress and diminish their healthcare experience. Environments designed to support a patient’s wellbeing result in improved health outcomes. Building upon Australia’s international leadership in contemporary hospital design, this project aims to evaluate, prioritise and strategise the best means for realising benefits of environmental design factors that contribute most significantly to achieving positive outcomes for patients and families. It aims to achieve this through a comprehensive comparative case study analysis of new Australian paediatric hospitals.