A recent literature review appeared quietly last year in a clinical medical journal. In “Evidence-based Art in the Hospital,” 30 original sources are gathered and summarized to yield suggestions for making art selections in patient rooms and in social areas. This list of sources includes some of the fresh evidence that has been moving the field in new directions and broadening its scope of inquiry.

Practitioners in the field would benefit from reading through these sources as a sort of primer, as it is both comprehensive and definitive.