New research shows the negative health impacts of a noisy hospital environment. June 11, 2012— -- Noisy hospitals have long been a major complaint among patients. Now, new research purports to ...

Acoustical engineers say hospital noise levels have grown steadily over the past five decades, stressing patients and staff, raising the risk of medical errors and hindering efforts to modernize ...

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 ...

Detectives have nabbed a set of nighttime thieves at Stanford Hospital, robbing patients of precious rest. The culprits: Ringing phones, beeping monitors, rattling wheelchairs and a chorus of hallway ...

Close your eyes and think of a hospital. There's the antiseptic smell, the cool, climate-controlled air, the bright lights glinting off linoleum. And then there are the sounds: squeaky-wheeled gurneys ...

Tour a hospital with James West and you begin to notice something – it’s a noisy place. Alarms on patient monitors are always beeping. When supply and cleaning carts clatter by, staff and patients ...

High decibel levels in hospitals disturbs both patients and doctors, and increases medical error risks, according to a study. Noise made by speakers, electronic ...

Boston Medical Center (BMC) successfully reduced audible alarms as a way to combat alarm fatigue and improve patient safety. The hospital, one of two in the country that spearheaded this issue, ...

Our medical systems are facing a reckoning thanks to COVID-19 — and musician Yoko Sen says it's time to rethink the way our hospitals sound. Sen is raising the alarm on the harms of hospital noise and ...

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 ...

"I feel like I am in jail." This is a Kaiser Health News story. When Kea Turner’s 74-year-old grandmother checked into Virginia’s Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital with advanced lung cancer, she ...

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 ...