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An evidence-based healthcare approach matters to care for patients effectively, improve patient safety and reduce waste.
Help in understanding and applying medical science: evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice help in other disciplines for health care professionals and for others including patients.
Evidence-based
Design (EvBD)
Evidence-based
medicine has inspired what is referred to as "evidence-based design"
(EvBD) in the field of architecture. Design may have an affect on health
care and health status outcomes, performance and processes. Evidence-based
design incorporates valid and useful scientific evidence that has been
systematically obtained and critically appraised, to help determine that
and should be characterized by applying transparent processes and judicious
crafting of conclusions, just as should be the case in evidence-based
medicine. (Read our opinion on the hallmarks of an evidence-based practice
here.)
Evidence-based design utilizes valid and appropriate methods for measuring
outcomes.
Case Study
An evolving area, EvBD is in its infancy. Medical architects,
professors, marketers and others from Seattle-based NBBJ, a leading architectural
firm, were interested in learning principles of evidence-based practice
and engaged Delfini to provide training and consultation in October 2006.
Of key interest is how EvBD in a health care environment can create improvements
in areas such as health status outcomes, health care outcomes, patient
and provider satisfaction, efficiency and more.
Want to know more?
- Understand why most evidence-based design is not truly evidence-based.
- Learn what it means to be evidence-based and how to perform the 5 "A"s of evidence-based practice —
- Ask (search)
- Acquire (filter to obtain potentially useful articles)
- Appraise (critically evaluate studies and other information)
- Apply (project impacts of change and implement change)
- Again… (update evidence-based information)
Simplified methods
We can rapidly teach you, your support staff
and your expert witnesses the key principles used to determine study validity
and usefulness.
Contact us
We conduct one-to-two day workshops and are available to travel on-site.
To learn how we could tailor a customized training program to meet your
needs, contact either of us. Read about us and our many testimonials on
our website at www.delfini.org.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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