Environmental design for patient families in intensive care units

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-397

  Rashid, Mahbub ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental design (ED); Healing culture; Healing environment; Intensive care unit (ICU); Patient family

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053093253     PISSN: 20402295     EISSN: 20402309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/2040-2295.1.3.367     Document Type: Article

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