PullClean: The Agency of Design's Response to Keeping Hospital Visits Hygienic

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  Teddy

  6 years ago

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  It's an interesting way to promote behavioral change in hospitals.
  
  I understand how placing a sanitizing dispenser in the middle of a major pathway makes it more likely to use, and I'm guessing they used door handles to avoid getting in the way of beds and stretchers.
  
  I'd like to see a similar concept applied to automatic doors: less touching and more sanitizing.

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  CofG

  6 years ago

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  How about un-lacquered brass or bronze handles instead? It amazes me that Medical Facilities so widely use Stainless Steel, when (un-lacquered) copper-based alloys are inherently anti-microbial.
  

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  leo

  6 years ago

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  This is clever and I like it, but would love to see more data to back it up.
  
  @Nigel: From what I understood you don't have to use the sanitizer to open the door, but using the built-in dispenser does not require the user to change his behavior to sanitize. It is less unobtrusive to do as it will be in the major walkways anyways.
  
  @Gabriel: I don't think that you would have to replace every handle in the hospital. But those on the major walkways could be helpful and sufficient enough. But this requires some proper planning in advance.
  
  
  But I wonder how this is really helpful, as you still have to touch the handle. Most of the hopitals I have seen recently have got electric door openers in the major walkways and usually on the inside of any examination room there's a sink and a dispenser for sanitizers, which you have to operate with your lower arm. So you don't spread bacteria with your hands.
  
  When you put these handles in major walkways (instead of electrical door openers) more people will touch the handle...that's just my gut feeling.
  I would love to see more data from them to really back this up.

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  Gabriel

  6 years ago

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  I'm not sure I understand the benefit of making it the actual handle, which would require every hospital, doctor office, etc. to buy into replacing every handle they have. The design is beautiful, but if the only reason this device is a handle is out of convenience and proximity (it's not like grabbing the handle dispenses the juice), why not have a device that can retrofit onto the most common industrial handles found in medical buildings, in a similar location? Yes, less pretty, but likely far easier to implement.

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  Nigel

  6 years ago

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  Do you have to use the sanitizer to open the door? I'm unclear on that.

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