Which Values Should Guide Health Care Organizations’ Retrofit Expenditures on Patient-Centered and Evidence-Based Design? DOI Open Access
Ellen Taylor

The AMA Journal of Ethic, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26(12), P. E916 - 924

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

When built environments in health care result from an evidence-based design (EBD) process, they are interventions that can improve patients' outcomes. This commentary on a case discusses which ethical values should guide organizations' capital expenditure decisions about retrofits, might be more costly than the original budget. discussion urges reevaluation of common assumption improvements "sunk costs," since such promote long-term positive outcomes for organization's patients, thereby advancing both financial value and values. also suggests EBD offers key clinically ethically relevant.

Language: Английский

Which Values Should Guide Health Care Organizations’ Retrofit Expenditures on Patient-Centered and Evidence-Based Design? DOI Open Access
Ellen Taylor

The AMA Journal of Ethic, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26(12), P. E916 - 924

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

When built environments in health care result from an evidence-based design (EBD) process, they are interventions that can improve patients' outcomes. This commentary on a case discusses which ethical values should guide organizations' capital expenditure decisions about retrofits, might be more costly than the original budget. discussion urges reevaluation of common assumption improvements "sunk costs," since such promote long-term positive outcomes for organization's patients, thereby advancing both financial value and values. also suggests EBD offers key clinically ethically relevant.

Language: Английский

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