Noise Pollution in the Hospital

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To the Editor: Over an 11-week period, I undertook 27 measurements of the noise in rooms with two, three, and four patients on the surgery floor of a Veterans Administration hospital. The ward and the number of patients in a room to be used for each assessment were randomly selected, until a total of nine samples were taken for each type of room arrangement.Measurements were taken at the head of occupied beds with a Biiel and Kjaer Noise Level Analyzer and Statistical Processor, Number 4426. Sound levels were sampled at two-second intervals for a 24-hour measurement period (usually from . . .

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