ReviewIndoor air2019
Effects of indoor environmental parameters related to building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems on patients' medical outcomes: A review of scientific research on hospital buildings.
Review in Indoor air, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- An interdisciplinary mixed-methods systematic review of multidimensional factors shaping the outpatient waiting experience.BMC health services research · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic review of the literature on indoor air quality in healthcare units and its effects on health.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Research Gaps in the Built Environment of Inpatient Healthcare Settings.HERD · 2024Pooled it
- Monitors to improve indoor air carbon dioxide concentrations in the hospital: A randomized crossover trial.The Science of the total environment · 2022Trial
- Innate airway immune response to fungal allergens.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Reconsidering indoor radon monitoring strategies in Romanian medical buildings: a data-driven perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- AI-driven smart grid optimization for hospital energy systems integrating renewable generation, predictive maintenance, and resilient infrastructure.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Rapid-response, low-detection-limit, positive-negative air pressure sensing: GaN chips integrated with hydrophobic PDMS films.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2024Article
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- Numerical Analysis of Indoor Air Characteristics and Window Screen Influence on Particulate Matter Dispersion in a Childcare Center Using Computational Fluid Dynamics.Environmental health insights · 2024Article
- Risk Influence of Some Environmental and Behavioral Factors on Air Contamination in the Operating Room: An Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Investigation on the effectiveness of ventilation dilution on mitigating COVID-19 patients' secondary airway damage due to exposure to disinfectants.Building and environment · 2023Article
- Airborne transmission of biological agents within the indoor built environment: a multidisciplinary review.Air quality, atmosphere, & health · 2023Review
- Innovation for infection prevention and control-revisiting Pasteur's vision.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Review
- An Edge Computing and Ambient Data Capture System for Clinical and Home Environments.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The impact of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning design features on the transmission of viruses, including the 2019 novel coronavirus: A systematic review of ventilation and coronavirus.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Ventilation and air-conditioning systems in dental clinics and COVID-19: How much do we know?Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2021Article
- Modeling hospital energy and economic costs for COVID-19 infection control interventions.Energy and buildings · 2021Article
- An adaptation strategy to urban heat: hospital rooms with radiant cooling accelerate patient recovery.ERJ open research · 2021Article
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Abstract
The indoor environment of a mechanically ventilated hospital building controls infection rates as well as influences patients' healing processes and overall medical outcomes. This review covers the scientific research that has assessed patients' medical outcomes concerning at least one indoor environmental parameter related to building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, such as indoor air temperature, relative humidity, and indoor air ventilation parameters. Research related to the naturally ventilated hospital buildings was outside the scope of this review article. After 1998, a total of 899 papers were identified that fit the inclusion criteria of this study. Of these, 176 papers have been included in this review to understand the relationship between the health outcomes of a patient and the indoor environment of a mechanically ventilated hospital building. The purpose of this literature review was to summarize how indoor environmental parameters related to mechanical ventilation systems of a hospital building are impacting patients. This review suggests that there is a need for future interdisciplinary collaborative research to quantify the optimum range for HVAC parameters considering airborne exposures and patients' positive medical outcomes.
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