ReviewHERD2021
Intensive Care Unit Built Environments: A Comprehensive Literature Review (2005-2020).
Review in HERD, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Research Gaps in the Built Environment of Inpatient Healthcare Settings.HERD · 2024Pooled it
- Summary of Best Evidence for Noise Management in Neonatal Wards.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Review
- Case Series: Episodes of Care in an Intensive Care Garden-Does Fresh Air Matter?Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Theoretical Integration for Designing Healing ICU Environments: An Interdisciplinary Framework.HERD · 2026Article
- Environmental sustainability evidence in critical care medicine: a scoping review.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026Article
- The Ethical Tightrope of Physical and Environmental Restraint in ICU: A Balancing Act.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Healthcare 5.0-Driven Clinical Intelligence: The Learn-Predict-Monitor-Detect-Correct Framework for Systematic Artificial Intelligence Integration in Critical Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- [Environmental sustainability in intensive care medicine].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Review
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- Important features of hospitals, intensive care unit waiting rooms, and patient care rooms: perspectives of intensive care unit visitors.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2025Article
- Infection Prevention and Control Strategies According to the Type of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria andAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Creating the ICU of the future: patient-centred design to optimise recovery.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Article
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- Residential Environments for Older Persons: A Comprehensive Literature Review (2005-2022).HERD · 2023Review
- Slack in the infrastructure of intensive care units: resilience management in the post-pandemic era.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Difficulties Experienced By Parents Of Babies Treated In A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit During The Coronavirus Pandemic.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2022Article
- Systematized and efficient: organization of critical care in the future.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Review
- Places of healing.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe intensive care environment in hospitals has been the subject of significant empirical and qualitative research in the 2005-2020 period. Particular attention has been devoted to the role of infection control, family engagement, staff performance, and the built environment ramifications of the recent COVID-19 global pandemic. A comprehensive review of this literature is reported summarizing recent advancements in this rapidly expanding body of knowledge. PURPOSE AND
aimThis comprehensive review conceptually structures the recent medical intensive care literature to provide conceptual clarity and identify current priorities and future evidence-based research and design priorities. METHOD AND
resultEach source reviewed was classified as one of the five types-opinion pieces/essays, cross-sectional empirical investigations, nonrandomized comparative investigations, randomized studies, and policy review essays-and into nine content categories: nature engagement and outdoor views; family accommodations; intensive care unit (ICU), neonatal ICU, and pediatric ICU spatial configuration and amenity; noise considerations; artificial and natural lighting; patient safety and infection control; portable critical care field hospitals and disaster mitigation facilities including COVID-19; ecological sustainability; and recent planning and design trends and prognostications.
conclusionsAmong the findings embodied in the 135 literature sources reviewed, single-bed ICU rooms have increasingly become the norm; family engagement in the ICU experience has increased; acknowledgment of the therapeutic role of staff amenities; exposure to nature, view, and natural daylight has increased; the importance of ecological sustainability; and pandemic concerns have increased significantly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Discussion of the results of this comprehensive review includes topics noticeably overlooked or underinvestigated in the 2005-2020 period and priorities for future research.
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