Sounds like spurious correlation. Is it that the hospitals that can afford art can afford better care?
Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
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I would be pretty stoked to see H.R. Giger artwork in any place (I have visited his gallery & cafe!), but I think it might be bad to dwell on it for a long time, since it would probably push you towards thoughts about existential questions and the nature of humanity, things like that. Probably not the best subjects for when you're already anxious about possibly-life-threatening hospital situations, heh.
The folks who decorated Denver International Airport would like a word with you... https://www.outtherecolorado.com/gallery/whats-creepy-apocal...
I bet that those are a smart plan for disclosing terrorists and trafficants of endangered species watching how people reacts to the paintings. There is a lot of children depicted in the murals. There is also a lot of guilt, and emotional themes subtly related with a typical work at an international airport.
Psychological warfare seems the only logical reason for having this paintings near to customs.
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I think this is the paper on the birth time. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003039921...
Unblinded (somewhat unavoidable), informal randomisation, n=26, the sole author is an interior designer with no scientific training. Paper states an "average" difference in birth times of 2.1 hours (not clear if mean or median), no SDs or p-value stated. Published in Optics & Laser Technology for some reason; the editorial board appears to be entirely comprised of engineers.
On the plus side, at the very least the same hospital and hospital rooms were used. I initially assumed they were comparing an expensive, spacious upper-class hospital full of art with a run-down brutalist Medicaid hospital, and conflating sampling bias with causality.
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See this NPR interview with a healthcare expert from the Kaiser Foundation: GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, why do people get hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills for staying in a hospital? ROSENTHAL: Well, the first thing I tell people when they ask me this question is to go into your local hospital and look around. And the marble lobbies, the art, the concierges at the front desk - our hospitals look like not five-sta…
> And the marble lobbies, the art, the concierges at the front desk - our hospitals look like not five-star hotels - seven-star hotels. Is there specific examples of these hospitals? I've never seen anything that extravagant in any of the hospitals in Pittsburgh.
Living in California I can tell you that there is free parking with valets. You can charge your electric car and the lobby is definitely not looking bad at all. In one hospital, in Washington, there was a super high ceiling with a piano where a musician comes sometimes during the day to play. It's not everywhere like these two examples, but I've seen a couple where the level was way higher than in Canada or Europe.
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#95getting sunlight also relieves depression and exercise and eating right will help with weight losss. This are obvoius things but they are not cures within themselves.
Im sure there are tons of things hospitals can do to help the surroundings. Whose going to put up the money?
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#96Definitely notice that the best hospitals in the nation invest in the look and feel of their hallways with art and positive colors!
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#97It all depends on the type of art.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
See this NPR interview with a healthcare expert from the Kaiser Foundation: GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, why do people get hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills for staying in a hospital? ROSENTHAL: Well, the first thing I tell people when they ask me this question is to go into your local hospital and look around. And the marble lobbies, the art, the concierges at the front desk - our hospitals look like not five-sta…
> And the marble lobbies, the art, the concierges at the front desk - our hospitals look like not five-star hotels - seven-star hotels. Is there specific examples of these hospitals? I've never seen anything that extravagant in any of the hospitals in Pittsburgh.
I've seen some pretty flashy lobbies and interior spaces in Boston (Brigham and Women's) and Providence (Lifespan) where you get the hotel impression. I could not find easy-to-point-at pictures, but there are some littered around (best I can show is http://www.discoverbrigham.org/2017-discover-brigham-photos-... which looks like a convention hall but is actually shot at the hospital). As soon as you get past them though to the functional spaces it usually turns into the traditional easy to clean hallway systems, but some of the lobbies have that marble, high ceiling, hotel lobby kind of look. There are plenty that I have been to that haven't exuded that kind of feeling however (or were an alternate entrance).
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#99Art is the new snake oil! All we need is more art!
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#100Is this really what is causing the impact? Or do hospitals that care enough to budget keeping up nice appearances tend to care enough to manage patients' health better as well?