Today's hospitals are twice as noisy as they were 50 years ago, according to the paper
Today’s hospitals must battle increasing waves of noise to speed healing and boost patient satisfaction, according to a free white paper available on the Health Forum website.
Florence Nightingale is credited with bringing up the issue of noise in 1859 but today it takes fresh thinking to tackle the factors making today’s hospitals twice as noisy as they were 50 years ago, the white paper said. The white paper points to numerous tools and techniques to bring quiet to healing.
June 25, 2014
Topic Area: Maintenance and Operations
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