A QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN EVIDENCE AND SPECIFICATION KNOWLEDGE BASES OF HEALTH CARE BUILDINGS DESIGN FIELD: AN ONTOLOGY-BASED APPROACH IN TURKISH CONTEXT

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Attaining the highest quality is a shared goal for sub-fields of healthcare including the design of health care physical environments. Health care architects and design teams are obliged to base their design decisions on findings of empirical studies as the most privileged knowledge sources for rigorousity demanded. It results overall healthcare industry in handling the phenomenon from a rather positivist standpoint, and naming it as evidence-based design (EBD). Despite its potentials, EBD continues to emerge as a highly problematic field that highly deserves studying. Problem areas of its emerged and emerging contexts seemingly intensify on practical ones and diversely span to conceptual, analytical, and ontological ones. Through their critical reviewing and labelling , this thesis provides a conceptual framework for a system-wide EBD understanding and ontology-based evaluation of its knowledge base. System-wide understanding of EBD brings the thesis into the question of knowledge synchronization inquired especially between propositional grounds of evidence-based studies and health care quality management and evaluation specification networks. The thesis systematically reviews and comparatively analyses knowledge domains of both by referring to the existing knowledge domain modelling and mapping approaches. The thesis experimentally grounds its methodology on a coding-encoding-decoding trilogy that can be described to be exploiting mixed-method and methodical plurality principles of post-positivist research. The thesis scaffolds for a knowledge domain analysis and utilization tool named Taxograph. The thesis also casts a spatio-conceptual light (Ontograph) on knowledge domain incompatibilities identified between two distinct knowledge bases. The thesis signifies its main contribution as the reinforcement of a more fundamental ontological understanding of EBD notion, and process of realization, practical application, and evaluation of its knowledge base.

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Health, Health Care, Health Care System, Health Care Building Design, Evidence-based Design Knowledge Management and Representation

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Ö. F. Alp, “A QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN EVIDENCE AND SPECIFICATION KNOWLEDGE BASES OF HEALTH CARE BUILDINGS DESIGN FIELD: AN ONTOLOGY-BASED APPROACH IN TURKISH CONTEXT,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.