Noise levels in in-patient hospital wards

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages

  Shiers, Nicola ^a   Shield, Bridget ^a   Glanville, Rosemary ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DESIGN; ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; BUILDING DESIGN; CONTROL MEASURES; CRITICAL CARE UNITS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITAL WARDS; IMPACT OF NOISE; NOISE LEVELS; SPECIFIC AREAS; SPEECH PRIVACY; WELL BEING;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTICS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84864724351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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