True, I did mention the staff. But the variable in question that I was wondering about is whether the architecture affects the staff in that way. In this case the staff are just passively refracting the pattern from the architecture.
It’s a far out theory. It’s far more likely that the administrative culture has a much bigger effect.
My question was really: could the attitude toward patients be altered merely by changing the hospital’s building architecture, in a way to put more emphasis on the person?
All things being equal it seems like the environment/design of the hospital should have a measurable impact on at least some percentage of patients.
I don’t have any expertise but taken to an extreme, patients in stark, depressing settings must have worse recovery rates than ones in aesthetically pleasing, happy ones right?
True, I did mention the staff. But the variable in question that I was wondering about is whether the architecture affects the staff in that way. In this case the staff are just passively refracting the pattern from the architecture.
It’s a far out theory. It’s far more likely that the administrative culture has a much bigger effect.
My question was really: could the attitude toward patients be altered merely by changing the hospital’s building architecture, in a way to put more emphasis on the person?
All things being equal it seems like the environment/design of the hospital should have a measurable impact on at least some percentage of patients.
I don’t have any expertise but taken to an extreme, patients in stark, depressing settings must have worse recovery rates than ones in aesthetically pleasing, happy ones right?