Public Art & Health

Staff and visitors remain less studied than patients

Research record PAH-005 · Finding, limitations, sources and publication relationships.

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· 2025 · International

Findings, methods and sources

Healthcare artResearch gapContext / synthesis

Finding. The 2025 scoping review found substantially more patient research than research on staff or visitors.

Limitation. A description of research coverage, not evidence that staff benefit less. Visitors, rather than staff, form the smallest named participant group.

Foster MW, Sanhueza C, Bahr E, et al. PLoS One. 2025;20(8):e0328215.

Methods and verification

Verification level: Full text assessed

Design
Evidence about the literature, drawn from a scoping review
Sample / scope
Peer-reviewed subset: 2,689 patient participants against 1,003 staff
Setting
All
Art form
Several or unspecified

Checked against the full text of the 2025 scoping review in PubMed Central, 29 September 2026

Last full editorial audit: 2026-09-09 · Verification policy

Publications and overlap

These five records cite the same review. PAH-026 also cites a separate accessibility paper. The 2026 correction belongs to this review and is not a new study. The underlying studies included by the review have not been matched against every other record.

Linked records: PAH-004, PAH-006, PAH-007, PAH-026 · Publication

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Public Art & Health. Staff and visitors remain less studied than patients. Research record PAH-005. Edition 4.11, 29 September 2026. https://www.publicart.health/research/pah-005

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