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Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review
Environmental noise has been growing in recent years, causing numerous health problems. Highly sensitive environments such as hospitals deserve special attention, since noise can aggravate patients’ health issues and impair the performance of healthcare professionals. This work consists of a systema...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33674976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13211-2 |
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author | de Lima Andrade, Erik da Cunha e Silva, Darllan Collins de Lima, Eligelcy Augusta de Oliveira, Renan Angrizani Zannin, Paulo Henrique Trombetta Martins, Antônio Cesar Germano |
author_facet | de Lima Andrade, Erik da Cunha e Silva, Darllan Collins de Lima, Eligelcy Augusta de Oliveira, Renan Angrizani Zannin, Paulo Henrique Trombetta Martins, Antônio Cesar Germano |
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description | Environmental noise has been growing in recent years, causing numerous health problems. Highly sensitive environments such as hospitals deserve special attention, since noise can aggravate patients’ health issues and impair the performance of healthcare professionals. This work consists of a systematic review of scientific articles describing environmental noise measurements taken in hospitals between the years 2015 and 2020. The researchers started with a consultation of three databases, namely, Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect. The results indicate that for the most part, these studies are published in journals in the fields of medicine, engineering, environmental sciences, acoustics, and nursing and that most of their authors work in the fields of architecture, engineering, medicine, and nursing. These studies, which are concentrated in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, use as reference values sound levels recommended by the World Health Organization. L(eq) measured in hospital environments showed daytime values ranging from 37 to 88.6 dB (A) and nighttime values of 38.7 to 68.8 dB (A). L(eq) values for outdoor noise were 74.3 and 56.6 dB (A) for daytime and nighttime, respectively. The measurements were taken mainly inside hospitals, prioritizing more sensitive departments such as intensive care units. There is a potential for growth in work carried out in this area, but research should also include discussions about guidelines for improvement measures aimed at reducing noise in hospitals. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] |
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spelling | pubmed-79356972021-03-08 Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review de Lima Andrade, Erik da Cunha e Silva, Darllan Collins de Lima, Eligelcy Augusta de Oliveira, Renan Angrizani Zannin, Paulo Henrique Trombetta Martins, Antônio Cesar Germano Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Review Article Environmental noise has been growing in recent years, causing numerous health problems. Highly sensitive environments such as hospitals deserve special attention, since noise can aggravate patients’ health issues and impair the performance of healthcare professionals. This work consists of a systematic review of scientific articles describing environmental noise measurements taken in hospitals between the years 2015 and 2020. The researchers started with a consultation of three databases, namely, Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect. The results indicate that for the most part, these studies are published in journals in the fields of medicine, engineering, environmental sciences, acoustics, and nursing and that most of their authors work in the fields of architecture, engineering, medicine, and nursing. These studies, which are concentrated in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, use as reference values sound levels recommended by the World Health Organization. L(eq) measured in hospital environments showed daytime values ranging from 37 to 88.6 dB (A) and nighttime values of 38.7 to 68.8 dB (A). L(eq) values for outdoor noise were 74.3 and 56.6 dB (A) for daytime and nighttime, respectively. The measurements were taken mainly inside hospitals, prioritizing more sensitive departments such as intensive care units. There is a potential for growth in work carried out in this area, but research should also include discussions about guidelines for improvement measures aimed at reducing noise in hospitals. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: [Image: see text] Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-03-05 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7935697/ /pubmed/33674976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13211-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Review Article de Lima Andrade, Erik da Cunha e Silva, Darllan Collins de Lima, Eligelcy Augusta de Oliveira, Renan Angrizani Zannin, Paulo Henrique Trombetta Martins, Antônio Cesar Germano Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
title | Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
title_full | Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
title_short | Environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
title_sort | environmental noise in hospitals: a systematic review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33674976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13211-2 |
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