Inpatient Corridor Visibility and Care Team Communication.

Objective: This article aims to investigate the impact of fine-grained differences in unit layout on care staff corridor communication.

Background: Corridor design can be undertaken with greater emphasis on space and cost efficiency or with greater emphasis on affording quality knowledge workspace. Building on prior research on care team communication and inpatient unit design, this study aims to gain a better understanding of how corridor layout properties affect care team communication.

Balancing Support for Staff and Patient Centeredness Through the Design of Immediate and Relational Space: A Case Study of Ambulatory Care Center Layouts.

Purpose: This descriptive case study of ambulatory care center typologies builds a layout-based approach to patient-centered care and care team work using theory and methods from space syntax and a recently developed approach to floorplan analysis focused on visibility.

Background: Calibrating support for care team work and patient centeredness is a persistent dilemma in ambulatory care settings.

Method: A review of literature and floorplan layout analysis are used.