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Clinical review: The impact of noise on patients' sleep and the effectiveness of noise reduction strategies in intensive care units

Excessive noise is becoming a significant problem for intensive care units (ICUs). This paper first reviews the impact of noise on patients' sleep in ICUs. Five previous studies have demonstrated such impacts, whereas six other studies have shown other factors to be more important. Staff conver...

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Autores principales: Xie, Hui, Kang, Jian, Mills, Gary H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19344486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7154