Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units: Creating Safer Environments

Matić, Zorana; Humphreys, Benton; DuBose, Jennifer

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Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units: Creating Safer Environments

dc.contributor.author	Matić, Zorana
dc.contributor.author	Humphreys, Benton
dc.contributor.author	DuBose, Jennifer
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. SimTigrate Design Lab	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-04-24T15:13:06Z
dc.date.available	2020-04-24T15:13:06Z
dc.date.issued	2020-02-01
dc.description	This white paper presents a summary of the work on the design of biocontainment units (BCU) that the SimTigrate Design Lab has been engaged in for the past 4 years. This document outlines design strategies for designing a safer and more efficient BCU, and is intended to provide information for designers (architects and interior designers), facility managers, and design researchers. These design strategies should be considered for implementation in both current and future BCUs.	en_US
dc.description	Zorana Matić, M. Arch, PhD (C), Benton Humphreys, B. Indd, M.S. (C), and Jennifer DuBose, M.S., EDAC, are with the SimTigrate Design Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology.
dc.description	DOI:10.1093/cid/ciz617
dc.description.abstract	The SimTigrate Design Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology has engaged in research on the design of biocontainment units (BCU) for several years, from the perspectives of both healthcare worker safety and patient experience. In response to increased awareness of the challenges of caring for patients with highly infectious diseases in the wake of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Georgia Tech, together with Emory University and Georgia State University, took part in a. multidisciplinary research program (Prevention Epicenter of Emory and Atlanta Consortium Hospitals – PEACH), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It focused on exploring new strategies to improve the safety of both patients and healthcare personnel during care delivery. The SimTigrate research team focused on ways in which the built environment might support or hinder safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) within a BCU.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Research supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program (grant no. U54CK000164)	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Matić, Zorana, DuBose, Jennifer & Humphreys, Benton. (2020). Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units: Creating Safer Environments.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Supplementary to: Wong, Maria F, et al. “Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units to Reduce Risk During Doffing of High-Level Personal Protective Equipment.” Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 69, no. Supplement_3, 2019, doi:10.1093/cid/ciz617
dc.identifier.doi	10.1093/cid/ciz617	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/62548
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Biocontainment unit (BCU) design	en_US
dc.subject	Healthcare workers safety	en_US
dc.subject	Infectious diseases	en_US
dc.subject	Personal protective equipment (PPE)	en_US
dc.subject	Safe doffing of PPE	en_US
dc.title	Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units: Creating Safer Environments	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Paper
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