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 ...

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 ...

Toddlers make their fair share of noise. But they also have a lot of noise to contend with — a television blaring, siblings squabbling, a car radio blasting, grownups talking. Amid all that clatter, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...