Behavior observation of major noise sources in critical care wards

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1109.e5-1109.e18

  Xie, Hui ^a,b,c   Kang, Jian ^a,b   Mills, Gary H ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic environment; Behavior observation; Critical care; Nighttime; Noise source; Statistical distribution fitting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIGH FREQUENCY NOISE; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOUDNESS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MEDICAL STAFF; NOISE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION; CRITICAL CARE; NIGHTTIME; NOISE SOURCE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION FITTING;

ACOUSTICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NIGHT CARE; NOISE; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84887409386     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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