On the hospital floor where postoperative gallbladder patients recovered, some of the rooms had windows that offered a view of a brick wall, while others looked out onto a large stand of trees. The rooms were otherwise exactly the same. It was decided to evaluate whether this one environmental difference could be playing a role in patient recovery.

For this post, I thought I would just summarize the findings gathered from multiple studies that have been done on the interaction between art and the patient (as opposed to hospital staff) experience.

Who doesn’t love looking at a beautiful garden? But did you know that there can be health benefits to a garden as well? Studies done in the late 1990s at several hospitals in California found that

In 1993, a group of researchers in Sweden wanted to determine whether certain types of art could have an effect on the postoperative course of cardiac surgery patients.