Noise pollution in the ICU: Time to look into the mirror

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Simons, Koen S ^a,b   Park, Munhum ^c   Kohlrausch, Armin ^c   van den Boogaard, Mark ^b   Pickkers, Peter ^b   de Bruijn, Werner ^c   de Jager, Cornelis P C ^a  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUND PRESSURE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NOISE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84906826461     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0493-1     Document Type: Article

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