Noise in the adult emergency department of Johns Hopkins Hospital

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1996-1999

  Orellana, Douglas ^a   Busch Vishniac, Ilene J ^a   West, James E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY ROOMS; NURSING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; SOUND LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE STANDARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MARYLAND; NOISE;

EID: 34047276277     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2642309     Document Type: Article

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