The hospital architecture to prevent hospital-acquired infection

Abstract

To examine the method of operating and maintaining facilities where infection control measures had been considered, a questionnaire survey was conducted among the doctors and the nurses at Juntendo Hospital. Actual usage conditions in the outpatient section, the operating room, sterilization area, and each ward were determined by responses to the questionnaire survey. Attitudes to ward the architectural space and infection control among the doctors and the nurses were clarified. The improvements of certain factors in the building environment and building equipment were clarified. Especially, the medical staff expressed dissatisfaction with rooms, air conditioning facilities, basins, the pedestrian bridge, elevators, and the tools and materials circulation route. The garden, the library, the store, and the restaurant, etc. were shown to be necessary facilities for patient recuperation environmental enhancement.