The influence of APACHE II score on the average noise level in an intensive care unit: An observational study

BMC Anesthesiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Park, Munhum ^a   Vos, Pieter ^b   Vlaskamp, Björn ^a   Kohlrausch, Armin ^a,c   Oldenbeuving, Annemarie W ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; ACOUSTICS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; APACHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84926638997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12871-015-0019-7     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Darbyshire JL, Young JD. An investigation of sound levels on intensive care units with reference to the WHO guidelines. Crit Care. 2013; 17(5):187.
2. Tegnestedt C, Günther A, Reichard A, Bjurström R, Alvarsson J, Martling C, Sackey P. Levels and sources of sound in the intensive care unit - an observational study of three room types. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2013; 57(8):1041-50.
3. Ryherd EE, Persson Waye K, Ljungkvist L. Characterizing noise and perceived work environment in a neurological intensive care unit. J Acoust Soc Am. 2008; 123:747-56.
4. Park M, Kohlrausch A, de Bruijn W, de Jager P, Simons K. Analysis of the soundscape in an intensive care unit based on the annotation of an audio recording. J Acoust Soc Am. 2014:1875-86.
5. Frey DJ, Fleshner M, Wright KP. The effects of 40 hours of total sleep deprivation on inflammatory markers in healthy young adults. Brain Behav Immun. 2007; 21(8):1050-7.
6. Chen H, Tang Y. Sleep loss impairs inspiratory muscle endurance. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1989; 140(4):907-9.
7. Van Rompaey B, Elseviers MM, Drom WV, Fromont V, Jorens PG. The effect of earplugs during the night on the onset of delirium and sleep perception: a randomized controlled trial in intensive care patients. Crit Care. 2012:16.
8. Xie H, Kang J, Mills GH. Clinical review: the impact of noise on patients' sleep and the effectiveness of noise reduction strategies in intensive care units. Critl Care. 2009; 13(2).
9. Hsu T, Ryherd E, Persson Waye K, Ackerman J. Noise pollution in hospitals: impacts on patients. J Clin Outcome Manag. 2012; 19(7):301-9.
10. Konkani A, Oakley B. Noise in hospital intensive care units - a critical review of a critical topic. J Crit Care. 2012; 27:522.e1-522.e9.
11. Busch-Vishniac IJ, West JE, Barnhill C, Hunter T, Orellana D, Chivukula R. Noise levels in johns hopkins hospital. J Acoust Soc Am. 2005; 118:3629-45.
12. Bentley S, Murphy F, Dudley H. Perceived noise in surgical wards and an intensive care area: an objective analysis. Br Med J. 1977; 2(6101):1503.
13. Bovenzi M, Collareta A. Noise levels in a hospital. Ind Health. 1984; 22(2):75-82.
14. Tsiou C, Eftymiatos D, Theodossopoulou E, Notis P, Kiriakou K. Noise sources and levels in the Evgenidion hospital intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med. 1998; 24:845-7.
15. Salandin A, Arnold J, Kornadt O. Noise in an intensive care unit. J Acoust Soc Am. 2011; 130:3754-60.
16. Aitken RJ. Quantitative noise-analysis in a modern hospital. Arch Environ Health. 1982; 37:361-4.
17. Bayo MV, García AM, García A. Noise levels in an urban hospital and workers' subjective responses. Arch Environ Health. 1995; 50(3):247-51.
18. Holmberg SK, Coon S. Ambient sound levels in a state psychiatric hospital. Arch Psychiatr Nurs. 1999; 13(3):117-26.
19. Murthy V, Malhotra SK, Bala I, Raghunathan M. Detrimental effects of noise on anaesthetists. Can J Anaesth. 1995; 42(7):608-11.
20. Philbin M, Gray L. Changing levels of quiet in an intensive care nursery. J Perinatol. 2002; 22:455-60.
21. Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, Zimmerman JE. APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med. 1985; 13(10):818-29.
22. Yeager D, Marsh A. Sound levels and their measurement In: Harris C, editor. Handbook of acoustical measurements and noise control. Melville: Acoustical Society of America: 1998.
23. Berglund B, Lindvall T, Schwela DH. Guidelines for community noise. Geneva: World Health Organization; 1999.
24. Field A, Miiles J, Field Z. Discovering statistics using R. London: Sage Publications Ltd.; 2012.
25. Akaike H. A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Trans Automat Contr. 1974; 19(6):716-23.
26. R Core Team. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing; 2013. http://www.R-project.org/.
27. Fletcher TD. QuantPsyc: Quantitative Psychology Tools. 2012. R package version 1.5. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=QuantPsyc.
28. Lumley T. Leaps: Regression Subset Selection. 2009. R package version 2.9. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=leaps.
29. Breheny P, Burchett W. Visreg: Visualization of Regression Models. 2013. R package version 2.0-4. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=visreg.
30. Hagerman I, Rasmanis G, Blomkvist V, Ulrich R, Anne Eriksen C, Theorell T. Influence of intensive coronary care acoustics on the quality of care and physiological state of patients. Int J Cardiol. 2005; 98(2):267-70.
31. Walder B, Francioli D, Meyer JJ, Lancon M, Romand JA. Effects of guidelines implementation in a surgical intensive care unit to control nighttime light and noise levels. Crit Care Med. 2000; 28:2242-7.
32. Richardson A, Thompson A, Coghill E, Chambers I, Turnock C. Development and implementation of a noise reduction intervention programme: a pre- and postaudit of three hospital wards. J Clin Nurs. 2009; 18:3316-24.
33. Chang YJ, Pan YJ, Lin YJ, Chang YZ, Lin CH. A noise-sensor light alarm reduces noise in the newborn intensive care unit. Am J Perinatol. 2006; 23:265-71.