Human Factors Guidelines for the Design of Mobile Medical Environments

Mobile medical environments, such as ground and air ambulances, have unique design challenges that can affect safe and effective patient care. Members of a provincial human factors department completed five evaluation projects on the interior design of these environments, resulting in the generation of more than 250 design recommendations. An inductive content analysis informed the development of a list of human factors guidelines for designing various mobile medical environments. Guidelines address equipment and supplies, patient visibility and monitoring, practitioner and patient comfort and ergonomics, communication, and working in motion