Specifying Healthcare Colors - what the research says

Jean Young offered a concise opinion on the use of color in healthcare in an email she sent me last week:

... there is NO EVIDENCE that shows us which color makes a difference in our healing environment. Very important to note that. There is SO much misinformation out there about this.

To back up her idea she referred me an article that she wrote called A summary of Color in Healthcare Environments: A Critical Review of the Research Literature. To read the article, which was in HealthCare Design Magazine: click here.

She also questioned the use of my language in the post "Rules for picking Colors".

I would like to recommend that you possibly reconsider renaming one item that says “Rules for Picking Colors”. We do not like to refer to specifying colors as “picking”; it really is way more than that.

Jean M. Young, ASID, CID, AAHID is President and Chief Designer/Planner at Young + Co., Inc. in San Diego.