title: Utilizing evidence-based design in a community hospital ICU.
abstract: This project documents a strategic planning process utilized during an academic clinical experience to establish evidence-based design features in new construction of an intensive care unit at a community hospital, while optimizing safe and cost-effective quality care, based upon evidence-based research.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Telemetry Unit, Wellstar Cobb Hospital, Austell, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Telisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Spikes
authors.forename: Kathie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aduddell
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital