OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of HERD-Health Environments Research & Design Journal is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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
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
Could Spatial Awareness Affect Situation Awareness: A Conceptual Examination	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
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
A Systematic Literature Review on Healthcare Facility Evaluation Methods	12
Investigating Accessibility of Hospitals in Cold Regions: A Case Study of Harbin in China	11
Staff, Patient, and Designer Perspectives on Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Environments: A Pilot Study	11
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
Changes of Walking Activity During the First Cycle Phases of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Seoul, Korea	10
Toward Building Surge Capacity: Potentially Effective Spatial Configurations in Emergency Departments	9
Wayfinding in Complex Medical Facilities: The Indexicality of Directional Arrows	9
Placing Users at the Center: Evaluating Exam Room Design for Improved User Experience	9

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
Is There an Environment in Virtual Care?	8
Costs and Effects of Ineffective Wayfinding in US Hospitals: A Survey of Hospital Staff	8
Adults’ Visual Cue Preferences and Wayfinding Abilities in Healthcare Centers	7
Teaching and Fostering Design Empathy	7
The Effects of the Ward Environment and Language in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Victorian Nurses’ Perspectives	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Evaluation of the Results of a Periodic Environmental Biosecurity Assessment Program on Air Quality in Controlled Environment Rooms of Hospitals	3
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
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
Development of a Data-Centric Design Thinking Process for Innovative Care Delivery	3
A Computational Approach to Estimating Healthcare Contact Surface Material Resilience	3
Virtual Nursing: A New Care Delivery Model	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