Noise in the operating rooms of Greek hospitals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 757-765

  Tsiou, Chrisoula ^a   Efthymiatos, Gerasimos ^b   Katostaras, Theophanis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b Sound and Acoustics ^*  (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPERATING ROOMS; PERSONNEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; PEAK SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; HOSPITAL BUILDING; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RECORDING; SOUND INTENSITY; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; NURSES; OPERATING ROOM TECHNICIANS; OPERATING ROOMS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 38849145775     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821972     Document Type: Article

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