... evidence in redesigning health-care facilities for improved usability. Design/methodology/approach This research, based on critical participatory action research, involved a case study of redesign and post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of an emergency department (ED) at Holy Family Hospital, Techiman...

...Majd Khatib; Abdulsalam Alshboul Purpose The design of the emergency department (ED) requires high precision in the process of distributing spaces. An increase in population and continuous development during the past years caused the addition of new services, changes in patients’ numbers, movement...

...Arsalan Gharaveis; Mardelle M. Shepley; Kirk Hamilton; Debajyoti Pati; Susan Rodiek Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the potential impacts of visibility on face-to-face communication among medical staff in community hospital emergency departments (EDs). Also, the researchers...

...Federica Pascale; Nabil Achour; Andrew D.F. Price; Francesco Polverino Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate emergency department (ED) design space planning approaches and draw lessons for developing more resilient and integrated ED guidelines. Two key objectives have been set; these include...