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Acoustic assessment of speech privacy curtains in two nursing units

Hospitals have complex soundscapes that create challenges to patient care. Extraneous noise and high reverberation rates impair speech intelligibility, which leads to raised voices. In an unintended spiral, the increasing noise may result in diminished speech privacy, as people speak loudly to be he...

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Autores principales: Pope, Diana S., Miller-Klein, Erik T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26780959
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1463-1741.174377