For many owners, healthcare providers and members of a healthcare design team evidence-based design (EBD) is viewed as a buffet, including such items as better lighting, lower noise levels, patient views to gardens, single patient rooms, etc., from which one may creatively select an assortment of items for use in planning a new healthcare facility. Often these decisions to use or not use a given design element are based on the price or convenience associated with deploying any given feature. This session enables attendees to:
•Understand why they should reject the notion of the buffet approach to EBD.
•State how to approach EBD in a way that invites the greatest possibility of success.
•Describe how EBD can backfire on the design team if corners are cut.