D02 - Not All Evidence Is Created Equal: A Discussion on Evidence Quality Assessment in Healthcare Design
- Room: 20
- Session Number:D02
Monday, October 25, 2021: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker(s)
Description
A decade after Dr. Stichler wrote Weighing the Evidence for The HERD Journal, what she emphasized then is still true today—"not all evidence is created equal.” Assessing evidence quality is essential to evidence-based design practice. However, reliance on value judgment and expert opinions persists. If the field of healthcare design research is to progress we must determine and mutually apply the dimensions of quality scientific investigation, regardless of the challenges intrinsic to research in the built environment. This session will feature a discussion on assessing the quality of evidence among some of the most well-respected healthcare design researchers in practice today.
Learning Objectives
• Articulate the relationships between evidence-based design and design research.
• Understand available evidence appraisal and grading systems that may be used to evaluate evidence quality.
• Recognize and begin to address barriers to developing rigorous research that will produce stronger evidence that is applicable to healthcare design.
• Identify and employ criteria for appraising evidence quality.
