Noise and sleep among adult medical inpatients: Far from a quiet night

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-70

  Yoder, Jordan C ^b   Staisiunas, Paul G ^a   Meltzer, David O ^a   Knutson, Kristen L ^a   Arora, Vineet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP PATTERN;

AGED; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 84855609753     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.603     Document Type: Article

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