Window Treatment-Bringing Art and Joy to Hospital Rooms

David Shih Wu; Candice D Harding; Felicia M Lombard

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.28102

Window Treatment-Bringing Art and Joy to Hospital Rooms

JAMA. 2024 Feb 20;331(7):545-547. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.28102.

Authors

David Shih Wu¹, Candice D Harding², Felicia M Lombard^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Columbia, Maryland.
³ Ellicott City, Maryland.
⁴ Formerly of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.

PMID: 38270927
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.28102

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Arts and Medicine feature coauthored by a patient and her hospital clinicians describes the use of hand-drawn window art in hospital rooms as a way to bring color and creativity into inpatient settings and build community among hospital staff and patients.

MeSH terms

Art*
Happiness*
Hospitals
Patients' Rooms*