The Globe and Mail

A team of researchers is working on a new way of designing health care facilities that could profoundly change how commercial buildings are designed. The team, led by Karen Parent, a professor in the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Queen's University, will be examining how staff and patients work and interact in the Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Cancer Centre, a new cancer care centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga.They'll use a cutting-edge research process called evidence-based design, tracing the movements of 30 patients, an undetermined number of doctors and 10 nurses by following, or shadowing, them and recording the data over one or two weeks in February. In-depth interviews and participant surveys will add to the body of knowledge in the $200,000, two-year study.