The evolving perception of staff on the acoustic environment of Critical Care Units

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 731-735

  Xie, Hui ^a   Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Critical care; Grounded theory; Hospital; Staff

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL CARE UNITS; GROUNDED THEORY; HANDOVER; INTERVIEW ANALYSIS; NOISE LEVELS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SHEFFIELD; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; STAFF; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ACOUSTICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; HOSPITALS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84868648471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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