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 ...

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 ...

June 12 (Reuters) - Certain hospital sounds, such as electronic alarms, telephones and conversations, can wake patients up even at relatively low levels, creating an environment that may slow healing, ...

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 ...

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Noise pollution is becoming a rising issue in hospitals, a recent report suggests.iStock Noise pollution is becoming a rising issue in hospitals, a recent report suggests. Noise in hospitals is known ...

While I am most comfortable being the doctor in the patient-doctor encounter, I recently had the tables turned during a three-day stay at the hospital while recovering from a burst appendix. My ...

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