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The healthcare facility design process provides a singular opportunity for designing spaces that promote safe and high-quality care. Virtual and physical full-scale models of spaces, called mock-ups, are increasingly being employed by healthcare architecture firms and health systems while planning for new or remodeled patient care areas. Simulating typical and high risk clinical scenarios in these mock-ups and then evaluating the performance of these spaces in relation to key design objectives, offers huge benefits and cost savings to healthcare teams by hel** identify design challenges before the building is constructed. In addition to cost savings, these simulation-based evaluations are also effective in engaging multidisciplinary clinical stakeholders and obtaining staff buy-in for major design and operational changes.
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Joseph, A., Reid, J., Kearney, J.J. (2021). Planning Patient Care Areas Using Simulation. In: Deutsch, E.S., Perry, S.J., Gurnaney, H.G. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72973-8_14
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