Personnel response in intensive care units

39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 724-730

  Persson Waye, Kerstin ^a   Ryherd, Erica ^b   Hsu, Timothy ^b   Lindahl, Berit ^a   Bergbom, Ingegerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Health; Hospital sound environment; Intensive care units; Personnel; Tiredness

Indexed keywords

ANNOYANCE; MENTAL FATIGUE; NOISE ANNOYANCE; NOISE DOSIMETER; NOISE EXPOSURE; PRIMARY HEALTHCARE; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; TIREDNESS; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

HEALTH; NOISE POLLUTION; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PERSONNEL; SURVEYS;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 84868645452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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