...Abstract Abstract During their inpatient stays, patients are often required – or highly encouraged – to wear hospital gowns. While these gowns are intended to be convenient for patients and their providers, their design has remained largely unchanged over time. As healthcare moves towards...

... and production process of level 1 hospital gowns to address this dire shortage at a large academic healthcare organization taken by a team of student engineers at the University of Minnesota. We detail the collaborative process of gown design, considering its constraints (time, cost, material, rapid...