Evidence-based Concept Programs for Healthcare Architecture

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This paper describes how new models and tools for planning healthcare buildings is recently developed in Sweden. Their purpose is to facilitate implementation of both evidence and best practice in a collaborative and dynamic planning process. Multi-professional collaboration is a significant part of the planning process in Sweden today. Up to the 1980:s, healthcare planning was centrally managed by a system of norms and standards. Following a general decentralization of the healthcare system in the 1990:s, the overall responsibility for knowledge development and planning of healthcare buildings was transferred to the individual County Councils. A local and dynamic model replaced the normative planning model. Such a model is supportive for innovation in a constantly changing healthcare. A weakness, however, is that individual projects risks be too focused on currently experienced needs and do not use available research and best practice. The dynamic model needs to integrate collaborativ

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