Environmental Needs, Barriers, and Facilitators for Optimal Healing in the Postoperative Process: A Qualitative Study of Patients' Lived Experiences and Perceptions.

Objectives: Gaining an understanding of postoperative patients' environmental needs, barriers, and facilitators for optimal healing.

Background: An optimal hospital environment (the "healing environment") can enhance patients' postoperative recovery and shorten length of stay. However, insights lack into patients' lived environmental needs for optimal healing after surgery and how these needs are being met.