Critical Care
Sound Pollution May Cause Medical Errors
A recent research project, by acoustics experts Ilene Busch-Vishniac and James E. West, acoustical engineers at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, showed that noise disturbs patients and staff members, raises the risk of medical errors, and hinders efforts to modernize hospitals with speech-recognition systems. More...19 Dec 2005
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