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The development of more advanced medicine and breaking new borders in treatment of serious illnesses may involve poorer and more helpless patients in the hospitals. They will need more personal help with everything and are more bedridden and exposed to infections. Those who are in a better shape will probably be day-treatment patients at the hospital, staying at patient hotels, nursing homes, other homes or at home. The future probably also leads to more resistant and contagious microbes and less effect of antimicrobial agents. Therefore, the hospital buildings, construction, outfit, design and maintenance, are very central elements in the management of modern hospitals with increasing risk of transmitting nosocomial infections. New hospitals, buildings, rebuilding, changed functions and logistic solutions may be well planned and considered thoroughly. Special focus may be placed on effective infection control measures like enough patient beds, single patient rooms and service rooms, design and quality of furniture and the implementation of effective, safe and good hygiene.
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Andersen, B.M. (2019). Hospital Buildings—Construction Projects. In: Prevention and Control of Infections in Hospitals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99921-0_76
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