Items Tagged ‘environment’
April 16, 2021
Stewardship in action: Collaborating to conserve energy
By Advancing the Science contributor 
By Amanda Holloway, Office of Sustainability, and Brandon Hill, Supply Chain Management At Mayo Clinic, research drives everything we do for patients. Discovery and innovation are at the root of every new treatment and each expansion of our understanding of disease. Better experiences within the health care system for patients, care givers, and health care […]
Tags: biomedical research, clinical research, clinical trials, collaboration, community engagement, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, environment, Mayo Clinic Laboratories
January 14, 2020
Improving experiences for people who work, live and play indoors
By Advancing the Science contributor
Indoor environments affect human health and well-being. And people affect the indoor spaces where they live, work and play. But how and to what extent? And what can we learn through this research? Indoor environmental quality research has traditionally been conducted in chamber studies. This type of research is important, but has a number of […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, environment, research, Well Living Lab
November 18, 2019
By Advancing the Science contributor
A new study from the Well Living Lab, a Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration, has been published as open source in Building and Environment. The study showed that window access to daylight and view in offices improves cognitive performance and satisfaction and that eyestrain and glare can be mitigated with the use of modern shading […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, environment, population health, Well Living Lab