Analysis of the soundscape in an intensive care unit based on the annotation of an audio recording

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1875-1886

  Park, Munhum ^a   Kohlrausch, Armin ^a,c   De Bruijn, Werner ^a   De Jager, Peter ^b   Simons, Koen ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDIO RECORDINGS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC ENERGY; ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; OPERATIONAL NOISE; SOUND LEVEL METER; STAFF MEMBERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ALARM MONITOR; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CLINICAL ALARMS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NOISE; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906829975     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: 15208524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4868367     Document Type: Article

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