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	38
Pioneering the Use of Tracker Data to Evaluate Lean-Led Hospital Design	27
Lean Design of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patient Room for Efficient and Safe Care Delivery	22
Balancing Universal Constants With Regional and Cultural Expectations	19
Outcome Measures: A Fresh Value Proposition for Design	18
Understanding Post-occupancy Evaluation Processes for Public Healthcare Facilities in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	18
Intensive Care Unit Built Environments: A Comprehensive Literature Review (2005–2020)	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
A Systematic Literature Review on Healthcare Facility Evaluation Methods	16
Rural and Urban Home Modification Program Users: A Comparative Study	14
Evidence-Based Design in the Hospital Environment: A Staff’s Burnout Study in the COVID-19 Era	12
Assessing Preparedness of Labor and Delivery Personnel in Transferring to a New Unit	12
The Built Environment Influence on Resilient Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review of Design Knowledge	12
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	12
Sources of Innovation in Healthcare Design: How Can it Happen?	11
Placing Users at the Center: Evaluating Exam Room Design for Improved User Experience	11
Changes of Walking Activity During the First Cycle Phases of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Seoul, Korea	10
Staff, Patient, and Designer Perspectives on Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Environments: A Pilot Study	10
Identifying Built Environment Risk Factors to Provider Workflow and Patient Safety Using Simulation-Based Evaluation of a Pediatric ICU Room	10
Investigating Accessibility of Hospitals in Cold Regions: A Case Study of Harbin in China	10
Toward Building Surge Capacity: Potentially Effective Spatial Configurations in Emergency Departments	9
Wayfinding in Complex Medical Facilities: The Indexicality of Directional Arrows	9
Are We Speaking the Same Language? Terminology Consistency in EBD	9

Influence of Hospital Outdoor Space on Physiological Electroencephalography (EEG) Feedback of Staff	9
Modeling the Dynamic Outcomes of Infection Prevention Behaviors in an ICU Environment	9
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	9
Costs and Effects of Ineffective Wayfinding in US Hospitals: A Survey of Hospital Staff	8
A Study of Children's Color Preferences for Consultation Room Furniture	8
Is There an Environment in Virtual Care?	8
Designing Worthy Waiting Spaces: A Cross-Cultural Study of Waiting Room Features and Their Impact on Women’s Affective States	8
Exploring Older Adults’ Nighttime Trips to the Bathroom Under Different Lighting Conditions: An Exploratory Field Study	8
Dementia-Friendly Design: A Set of Design Criteria and Design Typologies Supporting Wayfinding	7
Teaching and Fostering Design Empathy	7
Assessing Preferences and Perceived Restorative Qualities of Break Spaces for Nurses in China	7
The Effects of the Ward Environment and Language in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Victorian Nurses’ Perspectives	7
Impact of the Soundscape on the Physical Health and the Perception of Senior Adults in Senior Care Facilities	6
Patients’ and Nurses’ Experiences of All Single-Room Hospital Accommodation: A Scoping Review	6
Differential Obsolescence and Strategic Flexibility	6
Adapting the Australian Environmental Assessment Tool—High Care (EAT-HC): Experiences and Practical Implications From Germany, Japan, and Singapore	6
Influences of Physical Layout and Space on Patient Safety and Communication in Ambulatory Oncology Practices: A Multisite, Mixed Method Investigation	6
An Important Resolution for Design and Health	6
Innovate and Validate: Design-Led Simulation Optimization to Test Centralized Registration Feasibility in a Multispecialty Clinic	6
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	6
Adults’ Visual Cue Preferences and Wayfinding Abilities in Healthcare Centers	6
The Impact of Restrictive Family Presence Policies in Response to COVID-19 on Family Integrated Care in the NICU: A Qualitative Study	6
Supportive or Hindering Physical Environments in Hospital Units Dealing With COVID-19 Patients	6
Book Review: Intervention research and evidence-based quality improvement	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	5
Streets and Stress: A Pilot Study on How Quality and Design of Streets Impacts on Urban Stress	5
Book Review: Ship Sanitation, Health and Hygiene: An Approach to Better Welfare for Modern Seafares	5
Evaluating an Inpatient Created Art Installation on Perceptions of the Physical Environment, Health Status, and Rehabilitation Motivation	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
Biophilic Design: Healthy Buildings, Healthy Brain	5
Exploring Campus Configuration and Patient Arrival Behaviors at Large Hospitals: An Integrated Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) Protocol	5
A Systematic Approach to Evidence-Based Design for Measurable Health and Wellness Outcomes: Curating and Translating Evidence to Practice	5
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	5
Daylighting and Patients’ Access to View Assessment in the Palestinian Hospitals’ ICUs	5
COVID-19 in Long-Term Care: The Built Environment Impact on Infection Control	5
Salutogenic Architecture, Non-Therapeutic Environments and the Health of the Elderly: A Systematic Review	5
A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework of Biophilic Design Parameters in Clinical Environments	5
Comparing User Perceptions of Surgical Environments: Simulations in a High-Fidelity Physical Mock-Up Versus a Postoccupancy Evaluation	5
Elevating Nursing Research for Healthcare Environments	5
Designing for Health in Healthcare Deserts: A Medical City Master Planning Project in Nigeria	5
Housing With Care for Older People: A Scoping Review Using the CASP Assessment Tool to Inform Optimal Design	5
The Impact of a Dementia-Friendly Garden Design on People With Dementia in a Residential Aged Care Facility: A Case Study	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
Evaluation of Nosocomial Infection Control Measures to Minimize the Risk of Aspergillus Dispersion During Major Demolition Work: A Case Study of a Japanese University Hospital	4
Renovating Healthcare Facility Maintenance Planning: A Case Study From Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC)	4
Measuring Potential Visual Exposure of Physicians During Shift-End Handoffs and Its Impact on Interruptions, Privacy, and Collaboration	4
Book Review: Environment- behavior studies for healthcare design by Suining Ding DingSuining. (2023). Environment- behavior studies for healthcare design<	4
Anesthesia Workspaces for Safe Medication Practices: Design Guidelines	4
Adapting to Change: A Systematic Literature Review of Environmental Flexibility in Emergency Departments	4

Perspectives on Assessing the Flexibility of Hospitals for Crisis Mode Operations: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands	4
Color and NICU Design	4
Falls Incidence Compared Between a Multibedded Ward Hospital and a 100% Single-Occupancy Room Hospital: An Uncontrolled Before-After Study	4
An Exploratory Study Testing Environmental Wayfinding Aids as an Intervention for Children With Autism	4
Identifying Optimal Locations for Potential Temporary Community Clinics During Public Health Emergencies	4
Analyzing the Layout of Long-Term Care Facilities: A Psycho-Spatial Approach	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
Rethinking the Healthcare Facilities: The Role of the Buffer Space	4
Healthcare Goes Digital: Designing for the Convergence of the Digital and Physical Environment—Implications for Design Professionals	3
Designing Palliative Care Facilities to Better Support Patient and Family Care: A Staff Perspective	3
A Computational Approach to Estimating Healthcare Contact Surface Material Resilience	3
Using Space Syntax Analysis to Measure Patient Aggression Risk	3
A Scoping Review of Pediatric Healthcare Built Environment Experiences and Preferences Among Children With Disabilities and Their Families	3
Investigating the Interplay of Thermal, Lighting, and Acoustics in Intensive Care for Enhanced Patient Well-being and Clinical Outcomes	3
Comfort Equals Nurturing: Young People Talk About Mental Health Ward Design	3
Development of a Data-Centric Design Thinking Process for Innovative Care Delivery	3
Virtual Nursing: A New Care Delivery Model	3
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Healthcare Design	3
Seating in Doctors’ Waiting Rooms: Has COVID-19 Changed Our Choices?	3
Differences in Nurses’ Satisfaction and Demand for Spatial Design Among Different Departments of Nursing Units: A Case Study in China	3
Maternity Healthscapes: Conceptualization and Index Development	3
Incorporating Patient and Family Perspectives into ICU Environmental Design: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Existing Literature	3
Evidence, Bioethics, and Design for Health	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
Patient-Flow Analysis for Planning a Focused Hospital Layout: Tampere Heart Hospital Case	3
My (Brief) Foray Into AI (Artificial Intelligence)	3
The Reorganization of a Psychiatric Unit During COVID-19: A Reflection for Psychiatric Hospital Design	3
Biophilic Design and Its Effectiveness in Creating Emotional Well-Being, Green Satisfaction, and Workplace Attachment Among Healthcare Professionals: The Hospice Context	3
Space Use and the Physical Attributes of Acute Care Units: A Quantitative Study	3
Improving the Mental Health of Surgical Teams Through Operating Room Design	3
A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Evidence-Based Design for Aligning Therapeutic and Sustainability Outcomes in Healthcare Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Preliminary Development of Items for a Nurses’ Physical Environmental Stress Scale	3
Hand Hygiene Messaging Design in the Workplace: Views From the Workforce—Introduction	3
Aging-in-Place: Residents’ Attitudes and Floor Plan Potential in Apartment Buildings From 1990 to 2015	3
Wayfinding Information Syntheses: A Study of Wayfinding Efficiency and Behavior in Complex Outdoor Institutional Environment	2
Point of Decision Design to Address Adolescent Overweight and Obesity	2
Investigating the Feasibility of Multisensory Environments to Improve the Assisted Bathing Experience for Veterans With Dementia: A Clinical Trial	2
Effects of Micro Architectural Environmental Interventions on Handwashing Compliance of Adolescents: A School-Based Intervention Trial	2
Housing Accessibility at Home and Rehabilitation Outcomes After a Stroke: An Explorative Study	2
Evaluating Occupant Light Exposure and Usage Patterns in an Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit	2
The Application of Augmented Reality in Simulation-Based Design Evaluations of Trauma Rooms	2
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	2
Investigating the Conceptual Model of Child–Nature Interaction in Architectural Spaces Using Grounded Theory	2
A Design-Driven Approach Exploring Therapeutic Building-Nature Integration Strategies in Healthcare	2
Correlation Between Neighborhood Built Environment and Leisure Walking Time Around a Riverside Park	2
Perceived Usability of Seating in an Outpatient Waiting Area: A Combined Approach Utilizing Virtual Reality and Actual Seating Prototypes	2
Views of Greenery and Psychological Well-Being in Residential Aged Care Facilities: Longitudinal Associations	2
Book review: Nature, design, and health: Explorations of a landscape architect	2
How Does the Breastfeeding Environment Affect Satisfaction? A Scale Development Study	2
Guiding the Lean Design of a Hospital’s New Laboratory: A Case Study	2
Enriched Environments in Stroke Units: Defining Characteristics and Limitations	2
Tusler Prize for Published Research Accepting Submissions	2
Toward a Future Orientation: A Supportive Mental Health Facility Environment	2
An Explorative Investigation of the Effect of Naturalistic Light on Agitation-Associated Behavior in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Pilot Study	2
Emergency Department Environmental Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study	2
The Physical Hospital Environment and Its Effects on Palliative Patients and Their Families: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis	2
Mental Health Outcome Measures in Environmental Design Research: A Critical Review	2
The Birth Companions’ Experience of the Birthing Room and How It Influences the Supportive Role: A Qualitative Study	2
“A National Look at Hospital Bed Tower Design”: A Commentary	2
Influences of High School Physical Learning Environments on Students’ Anxiety in China	2
Inpatient Corridor Visibility and Care Team Communication	2
Can Operating Room Design Make Orthopedic Surgeries Shorter, Safer, and More Efficient?: A Quasi-Experimental Study	2
Design of Pediatric Outpatient Procedure Environments: A Pilot Study to Understand the Perceptions of Patients and Their Parents	2
The Influence of Physical Environmental Factors on Older Adults in Residential Care Facilities in Northeast China	2
Economic Argument for Innovative Design From Valuing Patient-Centered Stroke Rehabilitation	2
Futures and Foresight: A New Leadership Skill for Healthcare Design	2
Designing Intergenerational Spaces: What to Learn From Children	2
Close the Loop: Business Cases and Economic Evaluations	2
Clinical and Social Isolation: Begging for Design Solutions	2
Investigating the Role of the Physical Environment on Communication Patterns in Emergency Departments During Caregiving for Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Patients	2
Effects of Landscape Types and Complexity Along Path on Mental Restoration	2
Evaluation of Multisensory Interactions Between the Healing Built Environment and Nurses in Healthcare Nursing Stations: Case Study of Tehran Hospitals	2
Design Considerations for Virtual Reality Intervention for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Systematic Review	2
Blueprints for Better Care: Unveiling the Role of Clinic Design in Enhancing Patient Experience and Efficiency	2
An Auditory Sonic Sleep Treatment for Individuals Living With Dementia in a Memory Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Program Evaluation	2
Evaluating the Impact of a Multisensory Environment on Target Behaviors of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	1
Postoccupancy Evaluation of a Neighborhood Concept Redesign of an Acute Care Nursing Unit in a Planetree Hospital	1
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Patient Room Design: Identifying Safety Risks in Mirrored Rooms Through a Graphical Systems Analysis	1

Differential Effects of a Global Public Health Crisis on Physical Activity: Evidence From a Statewide Survey From the United States	1
Older Adults’ Needs and Wishes for Contact With the Outdoors at Residential Care Facilities: Implications for Theory and Practice	1
The Environmental Standards Council: Improving the Environment of Care Through Technology Functional Programming	1
Designing for Hope: Biophilic Color Associations and Their Relevance to Clinical Settings	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
Reimagine the ICU: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on How Environments (Can) Promote Patient Well-Being	1
Environmental Physical and Perceived Quality in Hospice	1
Blue Space: Extracting the Sensory Characteristics of Waterscapes as a Potential Tool for Anxiety Mitigation	1
Efficiency and Teamwork in Emergency Departments: Perception of Staff on Design Interventions	1
Keeping Healthcare Workers Safe During a Pandemic: Evaluating Doffing Area Design for Safer Removal of Personal Protective Equipment	1
Music in Waiting Rooms: A Literature Review	1
The Assessment of Long-Term Care Environments for Wayfinding Design	1
Exploring the Facilitators of the Gerotranscendence Theory: Correlations among Sustainable Behaviors, Biophilic Design, and Nature Connectedness	1
A Systematic Review of Research Gaps in the Built Environment of Inpatient Healthcare Settings	1
The Impact of Sensory Stimuli on Healthcare Workers and Outcomes in Trauma Rooms: A Focus Group Study	1
Key Flow Processes on Wards	1
Wandering Eyes: Using Gaze-Tracking Method to Capture Eye Fixations in Unfamiliar Healthcare Environments	1
Comparing Sources of Disruptions to Telemedicine-Enabled Stroke Care in an Ambulance	1
Reimagining Workshops	1
Does a Transition to Single-Occupancy Patient Rooms Affect the Incidence and Outcome of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests?	1
Designing a Child-, Family-, and Healthcare Provider–Centered Procedure Room in a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital	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
Moderating Effects of Individual Traits on the Association Between Nature and Patient Wait Experiences	1
Navigating the Maze: Caregivers Perception on Design Elements to Improve Wayfinding for Older Adults With Dementia in Long-Term Care Facilities	1
Baseline Study of Ultra-Clean Air Change Rate, Number, and Type of Microorganisms and Level of Particles During Trauma Surgery	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
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
The Continuous Learning Cycle: A Multi-phase Post-occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Decentralized Nursing Unit Design	1
The Role of the Built Environment as a Therapeutic Intervention in Mental Health Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review	1
A Study of Workspace Design Characteristics Exemplified by Nurses’ Satisfaction Within Three Intensive Care Units in a University Hospital	1
Internal but Not External Building Design Associated With More Occupational Physical Activity	1
Challenges to Long-Accepted Beliefs Encourage Us to Think in New Ways	1
SPECTRa: An Online Tool for Simulating Prehospital Patient Care	1
Exploring Visual Features of Ecological Design in Private Housing: Search for Visual Principles	1
Nature-Based Design in Stroke Rehabilitation Environments: A Scoping Review	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
Innovation Requires Implementation	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
Scoping Review: Association of Inpatient Hospital Design Features With Patients’ Clinical Outcomes	1
Executive Summary of Key Concepts	1
Design and Development of Isolating Pods to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus or Other Viruses for Hospital and Domestic Purposes	1
Healing Architecture in Healthcare: A Scoping Review	1
Hospital Outdoor Spaces: User Experience and Implications for Design	1
Barriers, Enablers, and Consumer Design Ideas for Health Literacy Responsive Hospital Waiting Areas: A Framework Method Analysis	1
Clinic Design for Safety During the Pandemic: Safety or Teamwork, Can We Only Pick One?	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
Working From Within: The Rural Community Participatory Design Framework	1
The Psychological Supportive Design Features in Hospitals: Case of a Public Jordanian Hospital in Amman	1
Preventing Frequent Fires in Hospitals Treating COVID-19 Patients: A Need for Qualitative Study and Insight-Based Intervention	1
German Translation, Linguistic Validation, and Cultural Adaptation of the Environmental Audit Tool—High Care	1
A Cross-Sectional Study of Circadian Stimulus in Swedish Radiographers’ Light Environment	1
Optimizing Nurse Workflow Efficiency: An Examination of Nurse Walking Behavior and Space Accessibility in Medical Surgical Units	1