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It has been proven that humanization plays a key role in hospitals and other environments. Enhancing the humanistic atmosphere in hospitals can help improve mood and reduce stress. Therefore, this article designs the waiting area so that the waiting area can reduce the patient’s anxiety and other negative emotions, and enhance the patient’s confidence in treatment. Due to the similarities between current general radiotherapy and proton therapy, this article sorts out the design directions and design methods of many cancer hospitals. At the same time, the author conducts a questionnaire interview on the behavior of patients during the waiting time before radiotherapy through field investigations in the radiotherapy department of the tumor hospital, To further explore the needs of patients in the waiting area, in order to find the direction of the interior design of the waiting area of the proton radiotherapy hospital in the future, and provide a reliable basis for the design direction of the proton hospital in the future.
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Liu, X., Liu, Y. (2021). Design Direction of Proton Radiotherapy Hospital. In: Kalra, J., Lightner, N.J., Taiar, R. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80744-3_5
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