HERD-Health Environments Research & Design Journal

Article	Citations
Balancing Universal Constants With Regional and Cultural Expectations	55
Pioneering the Use of Tracker Data to Evaluate Lean-Led Hospital Design	36
Understanding Post-occupancy Evaluation Processes for Public Healthcare Facilities in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	25
Outcome Measures: A Fresh Value Proposition for Design	22
Lean Design of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patient Room for Efficient and Safe Care Delivery	22
Could Spatial Awareness Affect Situation Awareness: A Conceptual Examination	21
Coping and Caregiving: Leveraging Environmental Design to Moderate Stress Among Healthcare Workers in the Emergency Department Setting	18
Daylight Access and Waiting Experiences in Cancer Hospitals	17
Sources of Innovation in Healthcare Design: How Can it Happen?	16
Predicting Leisure Walking Intentions Among Older Adults in Urban Residential Areas: Extended Theory of Planned Behavior and Health Belief Model	16
The Impact of Design Factors on User Behavior in a Virtual Hospital Room to Explore Fall Prevention Strategies	15
Exploring Environmental Considerations for Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients in Palliative Care Inpatient Units: A Narrative Review	14
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	14
Rural and Urban Home Modification Program Users: A Comparative Study	13
A Systematic Literature Review on Healthcare Facility Evaluation Methods	13
A Dialog Between Two Co-Editors: Evidence-Based Design and Therapeutic Landscapes	12
Evidence-Based Design in the Hospital Environment: A Staff’s Burnout Study in the COVID-19 Era	12
Identifying Built Environment Risk Factors to Provider Workflow and Patient Safety Using Simulation-Based Evaluation of a Pediatric ICU Room	12
Postoccupancy Evaluation of a New Hospital: The Relationship With Work Engagement	11
Wayfinding in Complex Medical Facilities: The Indexicality of Directional Arrows	11
Placing Users at the Center: Evaluating Exam Room Design for Improved User Experience	11
Investigating Accessibility of Hospitals in Cold Regions: A Case Study of Harbin in China	11
Designing Worthy Waiting Spaces: A Cross-Cultural Study of Waiting Room Features and Their Impact on Women’s Affective States	10
Toward Building Surge Capacity: Potentially Effective Spatial Configurations in Emergency Departments	10
Exploring Older Adults’ Nighttime Trips to the Bathroom Under Different Lighting Conditions: An Exploratory Field Study	10

Building a Culture of Inquiry in Healthcare Design: Research, Appraisal, and Empowerment Through the RAISE Heuristic Model	10
Is There an Environment in Virtual Care?	10
Staff, Patient, and Designer Perspectives on Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Environments: A Pilot Study	10
Are We Speaking the Same Language? Terminology Consistency in EBD	9
Evidence-Based Design of Physiotherapy Clinics for Optimized Recovery	9
Costs and Effects of Ineffective Wayfinding in US Hospitals: A Survey of Hospital Staff	9
The Multifaceted Role of Corridors in Residential Care Facilities: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic Study With Older Adults	9
An Important Resolution for Design and Health	9
Modeling the Dynamic Outcomes of Infection Prevention Behaviors in an ICU Environment	9
Teaching and Fostering Design Empathy	9
Theoretical Integration for Designing Healing ICU Environments: An Interdisciplinary Framework	8
Effect of Reduced Lighting on Psychological Well-Being During a Non-Stress Test in Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Study	8
Impact of the Soundscape on the Physical Health and the Perception of Senior Adults in Senior Care Facilities	8
Adults’ Visual Cue Preferences and Wayfinding Abilities in Healthcare Centers	8
A Study of Children's Color Preferences for Consultation Room Furniture	8
How Milieu Design Impacts Patient Autonomy in Behavioral Health	8
Book Review: Creating urban and workplace environments for recovery and well-being: New perspectives on urban design and mental health Stephan, P., Michael, K., and Jürgen, B. (Eds.).	8
The Effects of the Ward Environment and Language in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Victorian Nurses’ Perspectives	8
Exploring Campus Configuration and Patient Arrival Behaviors at Large Hospitals: An Integrated Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) Protocol	7
A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework of Biophilic Design Parameters in Clinical Environments	7
Biophilic Design: Healthy Buildings, Healthy Brain	7
Designing Autonomy and Community: Architects’ Perspectives on Extra Care Housing in the UK	7
A Systematic Approach to Evidence-Based Design for Measurable Health and Wellness Outcomes: Curating and Translating Evidence to Practice	7
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	7
Supportive or Hindering Physical Environments in Hospital Units Dealing With COVID-19 Patients	7
A Collaborative Communities-of-Practice Methodology for Environmental Design Research: A Case Study Application in Palliative Care	7
Patient Room Design: Engaging Clinical Teams Through Iterative Simulation-Based Evaluation	7
Innovate and Validate: Design-Led Simulation Optimization to Test Centralized Registration Feasibility in a Multispecialty Clinic	7
Adapting the Australian Environmental Assessment Tool—High Care (EAT-HC): Experiences and Practical Implications From Germany, Japan, and Singapore	7
Book Review: Ship Sanitation, Health and Hygiene: An Approach to Better Welfare for Modern Seafares	6
Designing for Health in Healthcare Deserts: A Medical City Master Planning Project in Nigeria	6
Housing With Care for Older People: A Scoping Review Using the CASP Assessment Tool to Inform Optimal Design	6
Evaluating Innovative Design Strategies in a Maternity Unit: A Post-Occupancy Evaluation Approach	6
The Perceived Support From Light and Color Before and After an Evidence-Based Design Intervention in an Emergency Department Environment: A Quasi-Experimental Study	6
Elevating Nursing Research for Healthcare Environments	6
A Systems Approach to Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Healthcare in Emergency Departments: Recommendations From a National Workshop	6
Streets and Stress: A Pilot Study on How Quality and Design of Streets Impacts on Urban Stress	6
A Choice-Based Design Approach to Influence Beneficial Use of a Green Space by Family Caregivers at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India	6
From Yard to Healing Garden: The Role of Participatory Design in Shaping Therapeutic Landscapes	6
Daylighting and Patients’ Access to View Assessment in the Palestinian Hospitals’ ICUs	6
Falls Incidence Compared Between a Multibedded Ward Hospital and a 100% Single-Occupancy Room Hospital: An Uncontrolled Before-After Study	5
Perspectives on Assessing the Flexibility of Hospitals for Crisis Mode Operations: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands	5
Understanding the Influence of Window Views, Plantscapes, and Green Décor in Virtual Reality Hospital Rooms on Simulated Acute-Care Patients’ Stress Recovery and Relaxation Responses	5
A Scoping Review of Pediatric Healthcare Built Environment Experiences and Preferences Among Children With Disabilities and Their Families	5
From Stressful to Mindful: Reactions to a Proposed Emergency Department Design for Enhancing Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Among Healthcare Clinical Staff	5
A Quarter Century of Evidence-Based Design and Restoring the Influence of Architects	5
Identifying Optimal Locations for Potential Temporary Community Clinics During Public Health Emergencies	5
An Exploratory Study Testing Environmental Wayfinding Aids as an Intervention for Children With Autism	5
Color and NICU Design	5
From Challenges to Innovations: Expert Insights in Pediatric Healthcare Design	5

Designing for Well-Being in Pediatric Patients Scheduled for Surgery	5
Salutogenic Architecture, Non-Therapeutic Environments and the Health of the Elderly: A Systematic Review	5
Researching Building Materials for Passive Pollution Remediation: The 2025 Latrobe Prize	5
COVID-19 in Long-Term Care: The Built Environment Impact on Infection Control	5
Rethinking the Healthcare Facilities: The Role of the Buffer Space	5
Adapting to Change: A Systematic Literature Review of Environmental Flexibility in Emergency Departments	5
Method to Understand Value Generation in Healthcare Built Environments Based on the Means-End Chain Approach	5
Design Strategies to Foster Improved Experiences for Patients in Rehabilitation	5
Measuring Potential Visual Exposure of Physicians During Shift-End Handoffs and Its Impact on Interruptions, Privacy, and Collaboration	5
The Potential Role of the Physical Environment in Telehealth: A Patient-Centered Care Perspective	5
Anesthesia Workspaces for Safe Medication Practices: Design Guidelines	5
Constructing Research: A Theoretical Perspective on Research and Creativity in Architecture	4
Spatial Adaptive Measures of the Emergency Departments in Response to the COVID-19 Surge—A Case Study of the Central City Area of Shanghai, China	4
A Computational Approach to Estimating Healthcare Contact Surface Material Resilience	4
Development of a Data-Centric Design Thinking Process for Innovative Care Delivery	4
Biophilic Design and Its Effectiveness in Creating Emotional Well-Being, Green Satisfaction, and Workplace Attachment Among Healthcare Professionals: The Hospice Context	4
Incorporating Patient and Family Perspectives into ICU Environmental Design: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Existing Literature	4
Using Space Syntax Analysis to Measure Patient Aggression Risk	4
Seating in Doctors’ Waiting Rooms: Has COVID-19 Changed Our Choices?	4
Exploring Intergenerational Interactions in Residential Environments: A Systematic Scoping Review	4
Preliminary Development of Items for a Nurses’ Physical Environmental Stress Scale	4
My (Brief) Foray Into AI (Artificial Intelligence)	4
A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Evidence-Based Design for Aligning Therapeutic and Sustainability Outcomes in Healthcare Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review	4
Differences in Nurses’ Satisfaction and Demand for Spatial Design Among Different Departments of Nursing Units: A Case Study in China	4
Maternity Healthscapes: Conceptualization and Index Development	4
A Scoping Review of the Impact of Environmental Design on Wayfinding for People With Sensory Impairment	4
Utilizing Agent-Based Modeling for Optimization of Wayfinding in Hospital: A Case Study	4
Improving the Mental Health of Surgical Teams Through Operating Room Design	4
Virtual Nursing: A New Care Delivery Model	4
Book Review: Environment-behavior studies for healthcare design Suining Ding. (2023). Environment- behavior studies for healthcare design . Routledge, Ta	4
The Reorganization of a Psychiatric Unit During COVID-19: A Reflection for Psychiatric Hospital Design	4
Tusler Prize for Published Research Accepting Submissions	3
A Design-Driven Approach Exploring Therapeutic Building-Nature Integration Strategies in Healthcare	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
Effects of Landscape Types and Complexity Along Path on Mental Restoration	3
Influences of High School Physical Learning Environments on Students’ Anxiety in China	3
Point of Decision Design to Address Adolescent Overweight and Obesity	3
Bridging the Research-to-Practice Divide in Healthcare Design	3
An Auditory Sonic Sleep Treatment for Individuals Living With Dementia in a Memory Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Program Evaluation	3
Close the Loop: Business Cases and Economic Evaluations	3
Evaluation of Multisensory Interactions Between the Healing Built Environment and Nurses in Healthcare Nursing Stations: Case Study of Tehran Hospitals	3
Residential Satisfaction and Sense of Belonging Under the ‘Moving-Merging’ Resettlement Strategy in Shanghai	3
Evaluation of the Results of a Periodic Environmental Biosecurity Assessment Program on Air Quality in Controlled Environment Rooms of Hospitals	3
Investigating the Conceptual Model of Child–Nature Interaction in Architectural Spaces Using Grounded Theory	3
Emergency Department Environmental Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study	3
Healing Spaces: Healthcare Design Past, Present, and Future	3
Futures and Foresight: A New Leadership Skill for Healthcare Design	3
Guiding the Lean Design of a Hospital’s New Laboratory: A Case Study	3
The Impact of Hospital Design on Time Spent on Nursing Tasks: A Time Motion Study	3
The Birth Companions’ Experience of the Birthing Room and How It Influences the Supportive Role: A Qualitative Study	3
An Explorative Investigation of the Effect of Naturalistic Light on Agitation-Associated Behavior in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Pilot Study	3
Designing Human-Centered Journeys: Design Strategies for Enhancing Wayfinding in Complex Healthcare Environments	3
Evaluating Occupant Light Exposure and Usage Patterns in an Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit	3
Correlation Between Neighborhood Built Environment and Leisure Walking Time Around a Riverside Park	3
Investigating the Role of the Physical Environment on Communication Patterns in Emergency Departments During Caregiving for Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Patients	3
Effects of Micro Architectural Environmental Interventions on Handwashing Compliance of Adolescents: A School-Based Intervention Trial	3
Designing a Child-, Family-, and Healthcare Provider–Centered Procedure Room in a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital	2
Design of Pediatric Outpatient Procedure Environments: A Pilot Study to Understand the Perceptions of Patients and Their Parents	2
The Application of Augmented Reality in Simulation-Based Design Evaluations of Trauma Rooms	2
Quantitative Study of Indoor Light and Sleep Health in Elderly	2
Cross-Cultural Insights into Hospital Design: Chinese Perspectives on Australian Hospitals	2
On the Prospect of a Maggie's Centre for North America	2
Optimizing Nurse Workflow Efficiency: An Examination of Nurse Walking Behavior and Space Accessibility in Medical Surgical Units	2
Does a Transition to Single-Occupancy Patient Rooms Affect the Incidence and Outcome of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests?	2
Reimagining Workshops	2
Inpatient Corridor Visibility and Care Team Communication	2
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	2
The SCALE Guidelines: A Framework for Standardized Case Reports in Architecture and the Built Environment	2
Wayfinding Information Syntheses: A Study of Wayfinding Efficiency and Behavior in Complex Outdoor Institutional Environment	2
Housing Accessibility at Home and Rehabilitation Outcomes After a Stroke: An Explorative Study	2
Enriched Environments in Stroke Units: Defining Characteristics and Limitations	2
Designing Intergenerational Spaces: What to Learn From Children	2
Spatial Configuration and Staff Experience in Ambulatory Care: A Comparative Analysis of Linear and Onstage/Offstage Clinic Designs	2
Physical Environment Factors Influencing Falls Among Women During Pregnancy	2
Keeping Healthcare Workers Safe During a Pandemic: Evaluating Doffing Area Design for Safer Removal of Personal Protective Equipment	2
Exploring Visual Features of Ecological Design in Private Housing: Search for Visual Principles	2
Differential Effects of a Global Public Health Crisis on Physical Activity: Evidence From a Statewide Survey From the United States	2
Older Adults’ Needs and Wishes for Contact With the Outdoors at Residential Care Facilities: Implications for Theory and Practice	2
Can Operating Room Design Make Orthopedic Surgeries Shorter, Safer, and More Efficient?: A Quasi-Experimental Study	2

Scoping Review: Association of Inpatient Hospital Design Features With Patients’ Clinical Outcomes	2
Achieving Users’ Needs in the Layout of Diagnostic Imaging Departments	2
Blueprints for Better Care: Unveiling the Role of Clinic Design in Enhancing Patient Experience and Efficiency	2
Book review: Nature, design, and health: Explorations of a landscape architect	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
Toward a Future Orientation: A Supportive Mental Health Facility Environment	2
A Systematic Review of Research Gaps in the Built Environment of Inpatient Healthcare Settings	2
Linking Older Adults’ Psychosocial Well-Being With Objective and Perceived Environments in Slovenia	2
The Assessment of Long-Term Care Environments for Wayfinding Design	2
How Does the Breastfeeding Environment Affect Satisfaction? A Scale Development Study	2
Innovation Requires Implementation	2
Connectedness to Nature and Professional Quality of Life Among Nurses in South Korea in the Context of COVID-19	2
Associations of Surgical Team Communication With the Layout of Physical Space: A Network Analysis of the Operating Room in a Military Medical Center	2