Judging a book by its cover: Medical building facades and judgments of care

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-329

  Devlin, Ann Sloan ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture; Health care; Patient perception

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PERCEPTION; STUDENT; TREND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 70349199007     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916507302242     Document Type: Article

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