Unveiling the Symbiosis of Environmental Sustainability and Infection Control in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review

RF Alruwaili, N Alsadaan, AN Alruwaili, AG Alrumayh - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This systematic review explores the intricate relationship between environmental
sustainability and infection control in healthcare. A comprehensive examination of twelve …

Preferences for hotels with biophilic design attributes in the post-COVID-19 era

F Khozaei, CC Carbon, M Hosseini Nia, MJ Kim - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the COVID-19 crisis has caused the cancellation of a great number of travel plans in
the last two years, this study examines the prospects of the post-COVID-19 era, during which …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 on visitors' wayfinding within healthcare centers

EM Khotbehsara, R Askarizad, M Mehrinejad… - Ain Shams Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The novel COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial calamities in developing countries
such as Iran, which initially suffered from inadequate infrastructure essential for the …

Unraveling the spatial dimensions of disease outbreaks: Implications for the future of third places—A scoping review

N Alfowzan, S Valipoor… - Journal of Interior Design, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Third places are vital social spaces, outside the typical workplace and living environment,
that facilitate meaningful interactions and contribute to an individual's sense of community …

Responsiveness and adaptability of healthcare facilities in emergency scenarios: COVID-19 experience

M Łukasik, A Porębska - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many vulnerabilities of the contemporary built
environment along with limited preparedness and low efficiency in mitigating unexpected …

Nurses' perception of work and life under COVID-19 pandemic conditions: a qualitative study

E Maghsoodi, Z Vanaki, E Mohammadi - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Although nurses work and live in special and stressful conditions due to the
nature of their profession, in periods of crises and pandemics, when the work pressure on …

Congruence mapping of the activity flows allocated in built environments: A pilot application of under-development software in an emergency-care service

LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, VSL Soares, J Amaro… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This paper presents the application of a software program that is
currently under development that provides feedback for the mapping activities that are …

Evaluation of an emergency room in operation during the COVID-19 pandemic: diagnoses and recommendations concerning environmental factors

VSL Soares, SW Ornstein, AJGL França - Frontiers in Built …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
To optimize the emergency room environment, this article puts forward comprehensive
diagnoses and recommendations to minimize healthcare-associated infections. Emergency …

Current approaches for preventing environment-associated contamination in healthcare facilities: a systematic literature review by open access database

VSL Soares, SW Ornstein, AJGL França - Architecture, Structures and …, 2022 - Springer
This article presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) whose objective is to identify
aspects related to the built environment of Emergency Rooms (ERs) and healthcare facilities …

Design of hospitals for the post-pandemic era: an international survey of design professionals on infection control design strategies

A Sherif, M Iskandar - Architectural Engineering and Design …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic placed unpreceded stress on healthcare systems, highlighting
their deficiencies and vulnerabilities. The risk of cross-infection among patients and …