HERD-Health Environments Research & Design Journal

Article	Citations
Coping and Caregiving: Leveraging Environmental Design to Moderate Stress Among Healthcare Workers in the Emergency Department Setting	28
Pioneering the Use of Tracker Data to Evaluate Lean-Led Hospital Design	26
Lean Design of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patient Room for Efficient and Safe Care Delivery	21
Balancing Universal Constants With Regional and Cultural Expectations	19
Could Spatial Awareness Affect Situation Awareness: A Conceptual Examination	17
Outcome Measures: A Fresh Value Proposition for Design	17
Understanding Post-occupancy Evaluation Processes for Public Healthcare Facilities in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	17
The Impact of Design Factors on User Behavior in a Virtual Hospital Room to Explore Fall Prevention Strategies	16
Exploring Environmental Considerations for Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients in Palliative Care Inpatient Units: A Narrative Review	16
Rural and Urban Home Modification Program Users: A Comparative Study	14
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	14
Assessing Preparedness of Labor and Delivery Personnel in Transferring to a New Unit	13
A Systematic Literature Review on Healthcare Facility Evaluation Methods	12
The Built Environment Influence on Resilient Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review of Design Knowledge	12
Sources of Innovation in Healthcare Design: How Can it Happen?	12
Evidence-Based Design in the Hospital Environment: A Staff’s Burnout Study in the COVID-19 Era	12
Staff, Patient, and Designer Perspectives on Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Environments: A Pilot Study	11
Investigating Accessibility of Hospitals in Cold Regions: A Case Study of Harbin in China	11
Changes of Walking Activity During the First Cycle Phases of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Seoul, Korea	10
Influence of Hospital Outdoor Space on Physiological Electroencephalography (EEG) Feedback of Staff	10
Identifying Built Environment Risk Factors to Provider Workflow and Patient Safety Using Simulation-Based Evaluation of a Pediatric ICU Room	10
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	10
Placing Users at the Center: Evaluating Exam Room Design for Improved User Experience	9
Toward Building Surge Capacity: Potentially Effective Spatial Configurations in Emergency Departments	9
Wayfinding in Complex Medical Facilities: The Indexicality of Directional Arrows	9

Is There an Environment in Virtual Care?	8
Costs and Effects of Ineffective Wayfinding in US Hospitals: A Survey of Hospital Staff	8
Are We Speaking the Same Language? Terminology Consistency in EBD	8
Exploring Older Adults’ Nighttime Trips to the Bathroom Under Different Lighting Conditions: An Exploratory Field Study	8
Modeling the Dynamic Outcomes of Infection Prevention Behaviors in an ICU Environment	8
Designing Worthy Waiting Spaces: A Cross-Cultural Study of Waiting Room Features and Their Impact on Women’s Affective States	8
Assessing Preferences and Perceived Restorative Qualities of Break Spaces for Nurses in China	8
The Effects of the Ward Environment and Language in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Victorian Nurses’ Perspectives	7
Adults’ Visual Cue Preferences and Wayfinding Abilities in Healthcare Centers	7
Teaching and Fostering Design Empathy	7
Innovate and Validate: Design-Led Simulation Optimization to Test Centralized Registration Feasibility in a Multispecialty Clinic	6
Supportive or Hindering Physical Environments in Hospital Units Dealing With COVID-19 Patients	6
Dementia-Friendly Design: A Set of Design Criteria and Design Typologies Supporting Wayfinding	6
An Important Resolution for Design and Health	6
Adapting the Australian Environmental Assessment Tool—High Care (EAT-HC): Experiences and Practical Implications From Germany, Japan, and Singapore	6
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	6
Biophilic Design: Healthy Buildings, Healthy Brain	6
Patients’ and Nurses’ Experiences of All Single-Room Hospital Accommodation: A Scoping Review	6
Impact of the Soundscape on the Physical Health and the Perception of Senior Adults in Senior Care Facilities	6
A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework of Biophilic Design Parameters in Clinical Environments	6
Book Review: Intervention research and evidence-based quality improvement	6
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	6
The Impact of Restrictive Family Presence Policies in Response to COVID-19 on Family Integrated Care in the NICU: A Qualitative Study	6
A Study of Children's Color Preferences for Consultation Room Furniture	6
Influences of Physical Layout and Space on Patient Safety and Communication in Ambulatory Oncology Practices: A Multisite, Mixed Method Investigation	6
Differential Obsolescence and Strategic Flexibility	6
A Choice-Based Design Approach to Influence Beneficial Use of a Green Space by Family Caregivers at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India	5
Book Review: Ship Sanitation, Health and Hygiene: An Approach to Better Welfare for Modern Seafares	5
Streets and Stress: A Pilot Study on How Quality and Design of Streets Impacts on Urban Stress	5
Housing With Care for Older People: A Scoping Review Using the CASP Assessment Tool to Inform Optimal Design	5
COVID-19 in Long-Term Care: The Built Environment Impact on Infection Control	5
An Exploratory Study Testing Environmental Wayfinding Aids as an Intervention for Children With Autism	5
Adapting to Change: A Systematic Literature Review of Environmental Flexibility in Emergency Departments	5
Designing for Health in Healthcare Deserts: A Medical City Master Planning Project in Nigeria	5
Comparing User Perceptions of Surgical Environments: Simulations in a High-Fidelity Physical Mock-Up Versus a Postoccupancy Evaluation	5
Exploring Campus Configuration and Patient Arrival Behaviors at Large Hospitals: An Integrated Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) Protocol	5
Evaluating an Inpatient Created Art Installation on Perceptions of the Physical Environment, Health Status, and Rehabilitation Motivation	5
The Impact of a Dementia-Friendly Garden Design on People With Dementia in a Residential Aged Care Facility: A Case Study	5
Analyzing the Layout of Long-Term Care Facilities: A Psycho-Spatial Approach	5
Daylighting and Patients’ Access to View Assessment in the Palestinian Hospitals’ ICUs	5
The Perceived Support From Light and Color Before and After an Evidence-Based Design Intervention in an Emergency Department Environment: A Quasi-Experimental Study	5
A Systematic Approach to Evidence-Based Design for Measurable Health and Wellness Outcomes: Curating and Translating Evidence to Practice	5
Elevating Nursing Research for Healthcare Environments	5
Evaluation of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Ability of Medical Buildings in Harbin, China	5
Developing Assistive Bedside Furniture for Early Postoperative Mobilization in a Healthcare Setting With an Attentive Empathetic Design Approach	5
Rethinking the Healthcare Facilities: The Role of the Buffer Space	5
Perspectives on Assessing the Flexibility of Hospitals for Crisis Mode Operations: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands	4
Anesthesia Workspaces for Safe Medication Practices: Design Guidelines	4
Identifying Optimal Locations for Potential Temporary Community Clinics During Public Health Emergencies	4
A Scoping Review of Pediatric Healthcare Built Environment Experiences and Preferences Among Children With Disabilities and Their Families	4

Maternity Healthscapes: Conceptualization and Index Development	4
Renovating Healthcare Facility Maintenance Planning: A Case Study From Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC)	4
Salutogenic Architecture, Non-Therapeutic Environments and the Health of the Elderly: A Systematic Review	4
A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Evidence-Based Design for Aligning Therapeutic and Sustainability Outcomes in Healthcare Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review	4
Book Review: Environment-behavior studies for healthcare design Suining Ding. (2023). Environment- behavior studies for healthcare design . Routledge, Taylor and Francis	4
Design for an Evolving Patient Experience	4
From Stressful to Mindful: Reactions to a Proposed Emergency Department Design for Enhancing Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Among Healthcare Clinical Staff	4
Falls Incidence Compared Between a Multibedded Ward Hospital and a 100% Single-Occupancy Room Hospital: An Uncontrolled Before-After Study	4
Measuring Potential Visual Exposure of Physicians During Shift-End Handoffs and Its Impact on Interruptions, Privacy, and Collaboration	4
Color and NICU Design	4
Space Use and the Physical Attributes of Acute Care Units: A Quantitative Study	4
Seating in Doctors’ Waiting Rooms: Has COVID-19 Changed Our Choices?	3
Incorporating Patient and Family Perspectives into ICU Environmental Design: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Existing Literature	3
Healthcare Goes Digital: Designing for the Convergence of the Digital and Physical Environment—Implications for Design Professionals	3
The Impact of Hospital Design on Time Spent on Nursing Tasks: A Time Motion Study	3
Evaluation of Multisensory Interactions Between the Healing Built Environment and Nurses in Healthcare Nursing Stations: Case Study of Tehran Hospitals	3
Investigating the Interplay of Thermal, Lighting, and Acoustics in Intensive Care for Enhanced Patient Well-being and Clinical Outcomes	3
Virtual Nursing: A New Care Delivery Model	3
Hand Hygiene Messaging Design in the Workplace: Views From the Workforce—Introduction	3
Using Space Syntax Analysis to Measure Patient Aggression Risk	3
Differences in Nurses’ Satisfaction and Demand for Spatial Design Among Different Departments of Nursing Units: A Case Study in China	3
The Reorganization of a Psychiatric Unit During COVID-19: A Reflection for Psychiatric Hospital Design	3
My (Brief) Foray Into AI (Artificial Intelligence)	3
Preliminary Development of Items for a Nurses’ Physical Environmental Stress Scale	3
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Healthcare Design	3
Effects of Landscape Types and Complexity Along Path on Mental Restoration	3
Patient-Flow Analysis for Planning a Focused Hospital Layout: Tampere Heart Hospital Case	3
Evaluation of the Results of a Periodic Environmental Biosecurity Assessment Program on Air Quality in Controlled Environment Rooms of Hospitals	3
Development of a Data-Centric Design Thinking Process for Innovative Care Delivery	3
A Computational Approach to Estimating Healthcare Contact Surface Material Resilience	3
Biophilic Design and Its Effectiveness in Creating Emotional Well-Being, Green Satisfaction, and Workplace Attachment Among Healthcare Professionals: The Hospice Context	3
Improving the Mental Health of Surgical Teams Through Operating Room Design	3
Designing Palliative Care Facilities to Better Support Patient and Family Care: A Staff Perspective	3
The Physical Hospital Environment and Its Effects on Palliative Patients and Their Families: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis	3
The Birth Companions’ Experience of the Birthing Room and How It Influences the Supportive Role: A Qualitative Study	3
Evidence, Bioethics, and Design for Health	3
Comfort Equals Nurturing: Young People Talk About Mental Health Ward Design	3
Utilizing Agent-Based Modeling for Optimization of Wayfinding in Hospital: A Case Study	3
Toward a Future Orientation: A Supportive Mental Health Facility Environment	2
Can Operating Room Design Make Orthopedic Surgeries Shorter, Safer, and More Efficient?: A Quasi-Experimental Study	2
Innovation Requires Implementation	2
Does a Transition to Single-Occupancy Patient Rooms Affect the Incidence and Outcome of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests?	2
Perceived Usability of Seating in an Outpatient Waiting Area: A Combined Approach Utilizing Virtual Reality and Actual Seating Prototypes	2
The Application of Augmented Reality in Simulation-Based Design Evaluations of Trauma Rooms	2
Comparing Sources of Disruptions to Telemedicine-Enabled Stroke Care in an Ambulance	2
Influences of High School Physical Learning Environments on Students’ Anxiety in China	2
Inpatient Corridor Visibility and Care Team Communication	2
Point of Decision Design to Address Adolescent Overweight and Obesity	2
How Does the Breastfeeding Environment Affect Satisfaction? A Scale Development Study	2
Effects of Micro Architectural Environmental Interventions on Handwashing Compliance of Adolescents: A School-Based Intervention Trial	2
An Explorative Investigation of the Effect of Naturalistic Light on Agitation-Associated Behavior in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Pilot Study	2
Investigating the Conceptual Model of Child–Nature Interaction in Architectural Spaces Using Grounded Theory	2
Guiding the Lean Design of a Hospital’s New Laboratory: A Case Study	2
Design of Pediatric Outpatient Procedure Environments: A Pilot Study to Understand the Perceptions of Patients and Their Parents	2
Differential Effects of a Global Public Health Crisis on Physical Activity: Evidence From a Statewide Survey From the United States	2
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	2
Designing Intergenerational Spaces: What to Learn From Children	2
Blueprints for Better Care: Unveiling the Role of Clinic Design in Enhancing Patient Experience and Efficiency	2
Design Considerations for Virtual Reality Intervention for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Systematic Review	2
Economic Argument for Innovative Design From Valuing Patient-Centered Stroke Rehabilitation	2
An Auditory Sonic Sleep Treatment for Individuals Living With Dementia in a Memory Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Program Evaluation	2
Book review: Nature, design, and health: Explorations of a landscape architect	2
Investigating the Role of the Physical Environment on Communication Patterns in Emergency Departments During Caregiving for Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Patients	2
Clinical and Social Isolation: Begging for Design Solutions	2
Tusler Prize for Published Research Accepting Submissions	2
Close the Loop: Business Cases and Economic Evaluations	2
A Design-Driven Approach Exploring Therapeutic Building-Nature Integration Strategies in Healthcare	2
Housing Accessibility at Home and Rehabilitation Outcomes After a Stroke: An Explorative Study	2
Reimagining Workshops	2
Enriched Environments in Stroke Units: Defining Characteristics and Limitations	2
Designing a Child-, Family-, and Healthcare Provider–Centered Procedure Room in a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital	2
The Influence of Physical Environmental Factors on Older Adults in Residential Care Facilities in Northeast China	2
Investigating the Feasibility of Multisensory Environments to Improve the Assisted Bathing Experience for Veterans With Dementia: A Clinical Trial	2
Emergency Department Environmental Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study	2
Views of Greenery and Psychological Well-Being in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Longitudinal Associations	2
Correlation Between Neighborhood Built Environment and Leisure Walking Time Around a Riverside Park	2
Wayfinding Information Syntheses: A Study of Wayfinding Efficiency and Behavior in Complex Outdoor Institutional Environment	2
Evaluating Occupant Light Exposure and Usage Patterns in an Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit	2
Scoping Review: Association of Inpatient Hospital Design Features With Patients’ Clinical Outcomes	2
Futures and Foresight: A New Leadership Skill for Healthcare Design	2

Executive Summary of Key Concepts	2
Music in Waiting Rooms: A Literature Review	1
The Healthcare Workspace: Understanding the Role of Decentralized Nursing Stations, Corridors, and Huddle Spaces as Locations for Teamwork in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit	1
Study on Collision Detection Techniques for the Informed Design of Natural Views in Healthcare Environments	1
Baseline Study of Ultra-Clean Air Change Rate, Number, and Type of Microorganisms and Level of Particles During Trauma Surgery	1
Challenges to Long-Accepted Beliefs Encourage Us to Think in New Ways	1
Nature-Based Design in Stroke Rehabilitation Environments: A Scoping Review	1
Preventing Frequent Fires in Hospitals Treating COVID-19 Patients: A Need for Qualitative Study and Insight-Based Intervention	1
Barriers, Enablers, and Consumer Design Ideas for Health Literacy Responsive Hospital Waiting Areas: A Framework Method Analysis	1
Navigating the Maze: Caregivers Perception on Design Elements to Improve Wayfinding for Older Adults With Dementia in Long-Term Care Facilities	1
Clinic Design for Safety During the Pandemic: Safety or Teamwork, Can We Only Pick One?	1
The Role of the Built Environment as a Therapeutic Intervention in Mental Health Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review	1
Keeping Healthcare Workers Safe During a Pandemic: Evaluating Doffing Area Design for Safer Removal of Personal Protective Equipment	1
The Assessment of Long-Term Care Environments for Wayfinding Design	1
Unlimited Surrounding: A Scoping Review on the Impact of the Built Environment on Health, Behavior, and Quality of Life of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities in Long-Term Care	1
Environmental Physical and Perceived Quality in Hospice	1
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Patient Room Design: Identifying Safety Risks in Mirrored Rooms Through a Graphical Systems Analysis	1
SPECTRa: An Online Tool for Simulating Prehospital Patient Care	1
Moderating Effects of Individual Traits on the Association Between Nature and Patient Wait Experiences	1
Hierarchy of Evidence: An Appraisal Tool for Weighting the Evidence in Healthcare Design Research Based on Internal Validity	1
Designing for Health and Well-Being: Lessons From Across the World	1
Evaluating the Impact of a Multisensory Environment on Target Behaviors of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	1
Designing for Hope: Biophilic Color Associations and Their Relevance to Clinical Settings	1
Key Flow Processes on Wards	1
Efficiency and Teamwork in Emergency Departments: Perception of Staff on Design Interventions	1
A Cross-Sectional Study of Circadian Stimulus in Swedish Radiographers’ Light Environment	1
Healing Architecture in Healthcare: A Scoping Review	1
A Systematic Review of Research Gaps in the Built Environment of Inpatient Healthcare Settings	1
German Translation, Linguistic Validation, and Cultural Adaptation of the Environmental Audit Tool—High Care	1
A Study of Workspace Design Characteristics Exemplified by Nurses’ Satisfaction Within Three Intensive Care Units in a University Hospital	1
The Psychological Supportive Design Features in Hospitals: Case of a Public Jordanian Hospital in Amman	1
Hospital Outdoor Spaces: User Experience and Implications for Design	1
Postoccupancy Evaluation of a Neighborhood Concept Redesign of an Acute Care Nursing Unit in a Planetree Hospital	1
Internal but Not External Building Design Associated With More Occupational Physical Activity	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
Blue Space: Extracting the Sensory Characteristics of Waterscapes as a Potential Tool for Anxiety Mitigation	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
Reimagine the ICU: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on How Environments (Can) Promote Patient Well-Being	1
The Continuous Learning Cycle: A Multi-phase Post-occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Decentralized Nursing Unit Design	1
Wandering Eyes: Using Gaze-Tracking Method to Capture Eye Fixations in Unfamiliar Healthcare Environments	1
Design and Development of Isolating Pods to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus or Other Viruses for Hospital and Domestic Purposes	1
The Impact of Sensory Stimuli on Healthcare Workers and Outcomes in Trauma Rooms: A Focus Group Study	1
The Environmental Standards Council: Improving the Environment of Care Through Technology Functional Programming	1
Working From Within: The Rural Community Participatory Design Framework	1
Exploring the Facilitators of the Gerotranscendence Theory: Correlations among Sustainable Behaviors, Biophilic Design, and Nature Connectedness	1
Optimizing Nurse Workflow Efficiency: An Examination of Nurse Walking Behavior and Space Accessibility in Medical Surgical Units	1
Exploring Visual Features of Ecological Design in Private Housing: Search for Visual Principles	1
Older Adults’ Needs and Wishes for Contact With the Outdoors at Residential Care Facilities: Implications for Theory and Practice	1
Background Music’s Impact on Patients Waiting in Surgery and Radiology Clinics	1
Associations of Surgical Team Communication With the Layout of Physical Space: A Network Analysis of the Operating Room in a Military Medical Center	1
The Demand for Specialization and Its Influence on the Design of Inpatient Nursing Units: Can Standardized Design Be Done Once and for All?	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1