While noise in a hospital may seem a simple nuisance, it can affect patients’ health and satisfaction, which in turn can impact hospitals’ reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare ...

The noise on children's medical wards at night exceeds the maximum limit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is significantly louder than in their bedrooms at home, a small ...

Increasingly, research has started to suggest that background noise in hospitals can keep patients awake or otherwise disturb them, potentially interfering with their recovery. While new hospitals can ...

Hospital noise interrupts patients' sleep patterns, influences their blood pressure and puts added stress on hospital staff--all reasons for organizations to find ways to reduce the constant commotion ...

Announcements blare from overhead speakers. Electronic devices beep. Heating and cooling systems rumble. Employees and visitors speak loudly. This sound snapshot, researchers say, comes not from a ...

Monitors. Alarms. Pagers. People. Hospital noise can keep patients from getting a good night's sleep. Sound panels tested in the hallways of a hospital system helped reduce noise around patient rooms.

In her 1859 book “Notes on Nursing,” Florence Nightingale called unnecessary noise in hospitals “the most cruel absence of care.” A century and a half later, her message still seems to be falling on ...

Share on Pinterest the_guitar_mann/Getty Images. Pollution occurs when a contaminant enters the environment, causing undesirable effects. There are several types of pollution, including: air pollution ...