What is it about?
This review explores studies using flashing digital devices to warn staff and patients about the increased noise levels in hospital wards' noise. The device picks up noise levels from the ward environment and converts them into colours. Red means the ward is too noisy, and green means the ward is not too loud.
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Why is it important?
It is essential to find ways to reduce noise to improve patients' sleep and recovery and staff concentration.
Perspectives
Noise in the hospital setting has a similarly devastating effect on health as air pollution, except noise is an invisible pollutant.
Mr Carlos Aparício
Anglia Ruskin University
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This page is a summary of: Can digital noise display devices reduce noise levels in hospital wards? A qualitative literature review, British Journal of Healthcare Management, December 2022, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2021.0063.
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