The speakers will present evidence-based research on patient rooms and discuss four factors—medical errors, patient transfers, patient falls, and health care-associated infections—that demonstrate measurable cost differences between single- and multi-bed rooms. This session will enable you to:

● Use research data to establish business and clinical cases for building single-patient rooms.
● Assess the financial implications of building single-patient rooms, including how they affect debt service on construction financing.
● Apply research outcomes to establislh postoccupancy measurement criteria.
● Compile a database of research and data related to single-patient room design.