Photo credit: Mx. Granger, licensed by Creative Commons CC 1.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA) recently reported that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital became the first hospital in...
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Hospital noise adversely affects staff
Photo credit: This photo by Navy Medicine is in the public domain by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That hospital noise is a problem for both patients and health care...
Hospital noise is bad for health
It’s long been known that hospital noise is bad for health. Dr. Arline Bronzaft wrote about the serious health effects of noise on patients and staff 20 years ago. But the studies continue, as does the noise.
Hospitals can be made quieter
Hospitals are surprisingly noisy places. Dr. Daniel Fink wonders why the health care system can organize to treat serious medical problems quickly, but has done so little to make hospitals quieter.
Alarming: No end to hospital noise
In “Alarming: No end to hospital noise,” David M. Sykes tells us that hospitals continue to turn a deaf ear to alarm fatigue.