Nurture and Mayo Clinic Study: Room Design Can Enhance Patient CareThe design of a consultation room can improve the quality of an outpatient visit.
A collaborative research study, developed by Nurture by Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which a consultation room designed to support present-day clinical encounters could affect the consultation between patients and clinicians.
The results of this randomized trial, the first of its kind, will appear in the Fall issue of Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD).
"This study supports the notion that the space in which people meet can influence how they work together," says Victor Montori, M.D., the lead Mayo researcher.
He also says more studies in other health care systems are needed to confirm these findings.
"Helping to build a body of evidence that leads to better health care outcomes and experiences is foundational to our mission," says Joyce Bromberg, director of WorkSpace Futures Research for Steelcase.
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