A hospital executive in my home state of Texas was telling me about a fairly minor surgery she had about 18 months ago. One of the things she remembers most about her recovery time at the hospital was ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain hospital sounds, such as electronic alarms, telephones and conversations, can wake people up even at relatively low levels, according to a new study. The results ...

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 ...

Hospital sounds disrupt patients’ sleep, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers conducted a three-day polysomnographic study in a sound-attenuated sleep laboratory with 12 ...

The sound echoed throughout Montefiore Medical Center, like somebody pounding dozens of nails around the clock. Wham! Wham! Wham! The source was actually a pill banger, used to crush medications for ...

Children and their parents who sleep in a hospital setting are exposed to noise levels that that surpass WHO’s recommended noise levels in Europe. This exposure, according to researchers, ...

July 16, 2012 — A new study has quantified how disruptive typical hospital sounds are to the sleep of patients, and shows, perhaps not surprisingly, that electronic sounds that are intentionally ...

After eight nights in the hospital for debilitating headaches, Laurel Carpenter was ready to go home and finally get what the doctor ordered — a good night’s sleep. From a private room in a Los ...

In an editorial published today in the BMJ, researchers from King's College London and the University of the Arts London (UAL) argue that it is a worsening problem, with levels regularly exceeding ...