Noise levels in Johns Hopkins Hospital

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3629-3645

  Busch Vishniac, Ilene J ^a   West, James E ^a   Barnhill, Colin ^a   Hunter, Tyrone ^a   Orellana, Douglas ^a   Chivukula, Ram ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACTAVE BANDS; SOUND LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SPECTRUM; TIME; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; BALTIMORE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; NOISE;

EID: 29244491686     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2118327     Document Type: Article

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