Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society · 1971 · 12 citations · 3 references
ManagementHealth Care ManagementNursing AdministrationFacility LayoutHospital AdministrationTransportHospital Operations ManagementInpatient CareLayout EvaluationPatient TransportTravel BehaviorTravel BehaviourHealthcare Facility Floor PlansHospital Floor PlansHospital Layout OptimizationNursing ProductivityNursing Station LayoutNursing UnitStaff Workflow EfficiencyWorkplace Floor Plans
A method of comparing the efficiency of hospital-ward layouts in terms of nurses' travel is described. Comparisons of several floor plans are made. Travel that depends solely on physical layout and travel that is related to typical patterns of work can be identified. The method is useful to the behavioral scientist in making nursing unit studies in which equating travel or accounting for differences in travel are desired. The method is also useful to the industrial engineer and the architect in preventing needless travel, and to nursing management in showing the value of planned tours in reducing travel.
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Age and Ageing · 2006 · 83 citations · Full text
Cost of information handling in hospitals.
Ronald A. Jydstrup, Malvern J. Gross · PubMed · 1966 · 61 citations · Full text
Health Professions, Health Administration, Operations Management +14
Operations Research and Systems Engineering
L. S. GODDARD · Nature · 1961 · 32 citations · Full text