Creating a culture of safety: Reducing hospital noise

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 350-355

  Mazer, Susan E ^a  

^a Healing HealthCare Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONVERSATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NOISE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOUND PRESSURE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; NOISE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869822403     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: 19435967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2345/0899-8205-46.5.350     Document Type: Review

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