Environmental noise has been growing in recent years, causing numerous health problems.
Highly sensitive environments such as hospitals deserve special attention, since noise can …

Objective Noise in operating rooms (OR) can have negative effects on both patients and
surgical care workers. Noise can also impact surgical performance, team communication …

Although hospitals are notorious for poor acoustics, the acoustic environment is usually
evaluated in silos, or in conjunction with few indoor environmental quality (IEQ) factors. With …

Hospital environmental noise can impact the comfort of both workers and patients, causing
sleep disturbances and hindering the recovery process. Environmental noise in hospitals is …

The paper proposes a survey methodology to be applied within hospital wards to investigate
the most disturbing sources and users' perceptions of them, by acoustic characterization …

This study aims to evaluate the effects of architectural layouts of emergency departments on
activity patterns/work routines and consequent noise levels. Three Danish hospitals' …

O ambiente de cuidados exerce influência sobre a condição do cliente e dos profissionais,
sendo um dos indicadores de qualidade em saúde. De entre os vários fatores ambientais …

Using behavioral evaluation of free recall performance, we investigated whether
reverberation and/or noise affected memory performance in normal-hearing adults. Thirty …