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Posted by Mark Vanderbeeken | 27 Feb 2010
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PriestmanGoode, a London design house that has worked on everything from cell phones to speakers to first-class cabins for Swiss Airlines, has developed -- at the request of UK's Design Council -- a radical solution to how hospital wards should be designed. Fast Company reports:
"PG has just released their proposal today, in a "healthcare manifesto." The central problems facing hospital design happen to have already been solved in the design of first-class cabins for airlines, they say. "
Strange though that the article and the manifesto don't say a word about the quality of medical care.
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Really... I would asked to be moved if I was taken to that hospital. It might look cool, but it doesn't look very practical and has zero privacy. No thank you.
How does this concept help prevent the spreading of MRSA and other hospital-acquired infection? An open area, like this proposal, breeds bacterial abundance. Is this concept geared more toward an ICU setting or Med-surg? Privacy is a huge issue here.