Redesigning the Hospital Environment to Improve Restfulness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hospital wards are often not conducive to patient sleep, negatively affecting patient health and experience.

Objectives

To assess determinants of in-hospital restfulness and to design and test rest-promoting interventions on the wards in partnership with clinicians, staff, and patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This rapid-sequential mixed-methods quality improvement study was performed at a large urban academic hospital in St Louis, Missouri, from May 1, 2021, to December 31, 2022, with follow-up through hospitalization. Mixed-methods activities involved purposively selected hospitalized adults on the wards, nurses, hospitalists, and hospital staff. Interventions included all adult hospitalizations on the study wards.

Interventions

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SUBMITTER: Catley CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11618460 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature