The 2006 Edition of the Guidelines

	Table of Contents
	Preface
	Major Changes and Additions
	Errata Sheets
	How to Order

How to Reference the 2006 Edition

For the 2006 edition, the content of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities was reorganized using a new numbering system, which places the chapter number at the top of the page and paragraph numbers in the text. Thus, for clarity, each paragraph reference must include both the chapter number (followed by a hyphen) and the paragraph number. For instance, the reference to typical patient rooms in a hospital medical/surgical unit in Chapter 2.1, General Hospitals, is 2.1-3.1.1.

To make the document easy to read, it was decided not to include full-length paragraph references in the text itself. Therefore, full references appear only in cross-references and in the index. The one exception is a matrix at the back of the book that was developed for Guidelines users accustomed to the previous numbering system. This matrix lists paragraph numbers in the 2001 edition and their corresponding complete paragraph references in the 2006 edition.

Bottom line: The paragraph numbers in the text of the 2006 edition often appear in multiple chapters. Therefore, users must provide complete paragraph references (chapter number [hyphen] paragraph number, such as 2.1-3.1.1) to adequately reference the 2006 edition.</p>