TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial decision support systems for hospital layout design
T2 - A review
AU - Jia, Zhuoran
AU - Nourian, Pirouz
AU - Luscuere, Peter
AU - Wagenaar, Cor
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This study presents a systematic review of the literature on decision support for designing hospital layouts using spatial network analysis and/or simulation modelling. The review includes 102 articles, which are classified into five different categories concerning their layout-related challenges. Specifically, the categories include overcrowding, patient waiting times, visibility & staff interaction, wayfinding & walkability, and other issues such as hospital-acquired infections. The main finding is the cross-referenced table of different performance issues related to the hospital layout to different assessment methods, indicators, and quality criteria. The review suggests prospects for associating hospital design problems/challenges with spatial layout, as well as a framework for developing methods for layout representation, aggregation and relativization borrowing from the fields of transport planning and operations research. The main focus of this study lies in the spatial layout. Viewing the spatial complexity of a hospital as an indoor spatial environment is at least as complex as an urban environment, thus justifying a geographical approach; hence we expand the scope of the literature review to papers that may not directly address hospital design but have relations to spatial decision support systems.
AB - This study presents a systematic review of the literature on decision support for designing hospital layouts using spatial network analysis and/or simulation modelling. The review includes 102 articles, which are classified into five different categories concerning their layout-related challenges. Specifically, the categories include overcrowding, patient waiting times, visibility & staff interaction, wayfinding & walkability, and other issues such as hospital-acquired infections. The main finding is the cross-referenced table of different performance issues related to the hospital layout to different assessment methods, indicators, and quality criteria. The review suggests prospects for associating hospital design problems/challenges with spatial layout, as well as a framework for developing methods for layout representation, aggregation and relativization borrowing from the fields of transport planning and operations research. The main focus of this study lies in the spatial layout. Viewing the spatial complexity of a hospital as an indoor spatial environment is at least as complex as an urban environment, thus justifying a geographical approach; hence we expand the scope of the literature review to papers that may not directly address hospital design but have relations to spatial decision support systems.
KW - Agent-based modelling
KW - Decision support systems
KW - Discrete event simulations
KW - Hospital layout design
KW - Markov chain random walk simulations
KW - Space syntax analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jobe.2023.106042
DO - 10.1016/j.jobe.2023.106042
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85147548991
SN - 2352-7102
VL - 67
JO - Journal of Building Engineering
JF - Journal of Building Engineering
M1 - 106042
ER -