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Healthcare signage design: a review on recommendations for effective signing systems
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues, Rita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coelho, Rita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tavares, João Manuel R. S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-28T12:12:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-28T12:12:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article provides a set of recommendations, selected from the systematic literature review carried out, regarding signage systems for healthcare institutions that can be used for designing or redesigning more competent signage systems. The signage systems in healthcare settings are usually poorly designed due to the expansion of the original facilities, a lack of awareness of existing guidelines by the developers, and a lack of agreement between the existing recommendations. There are several guidelines and recommendations available in the literature; however, each work was developed for specific cultural contexts, so there is a lack of uniformity among them. Hence, there is a need to uniformize the guidelines for signage design in healthcare, in order to provide supportive information for developers to build and implement effective and efficient signage systems. This study examined the available literature on the subject and established a set of guidelines organized in categories to help the design process. A literature review was conducted, and 34 selected publications were analyzed from which recommendations were created. A best practices manual was also studied and used as the analytical framework to establish the design categories of the developed recommendations. This review resulted in guidelines divided into nine design categories that should be considered in the design and implementation process of signage systems in healthcare facilities. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,” in Portugal, through a PhD grant with reference PD/BD/52348/2013 financed by national funds from “Ministério da Educação e Ciência” in Portugal and by the European Social Fund through the POPH-QREN-Typology 4.1-Advanced Training. This work was also supported by the Project NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022—SciTech—Science and Technology for Competitive and Sustainable Industries, cofinanced by “Programa Operacional Regional do Norte” (NORTE2020), through “Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional”. | |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1937586718814822 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1937-5867 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2167-5112 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/14977 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Sage | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022 | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1937586718814822 | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Signage systems | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Design | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Healthcare facilities | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Healthcare environment | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Wayfinding | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | User perception | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Healthcare signage design: a review on recommendations for effective signing systems | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 65 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 45 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Health Environments Research & Design Journal | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 12, 3 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Coelho | |
| person.givenName | Rita | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5858-1843 | |
| rcaap.rights | closedAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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