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Visual art in hospitals: review and Scottish cases

Research record PAH-015 · Finding, limitations, sources and publication relationships.

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· 2010 · United Kingdom

Findings, methods and sources

Healthcare artReviewContext / synthesis

Finding. Lankston and colleagues describe generally favourable responses to hospital art alongside limitations in the available evidence.

Limitation. A narrative review and case discussion; it does not establish a uniform clinical effect.

Lankston L, Cusack P, Fremantle C, Isles C. Visual art in hospitals: case studies and review of the evidence. J R Soc Med. 2010;103(12):490-499.

Methods and verification

Verification level: Abstract checked

Design
Narrative review with three hospital case studies
Sample / scope
Three Scottish hospitals: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, new Stobhill Hospital, new Victoria Infirmary
Setting
Whole hospital
Art form
Several or unspecified

Citation and abstract checked against PubMed, 29 September 2026

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

Publications and overlap

No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.

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Public Art & Health. Visual art in hospitals: review and Scottish cases. Research record PAH-015. Edition 4.11, 29 September 2026. https://www.publicart.health/research/pah-015

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