The Influence of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Design on Sound Level

• Main Authors: Hsin-Li Chen (Author), Chao-Huei Chen (Author), Chih-Chao Wu (Author), Hsiu-Jung Huang (Author), Teh-Ming Wang (Author), Chia-Chi Hsu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Excessive noise in nurseries has been found to cause adverse effects in infants, especially preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The NICU design may influence the background sound level. We compared the sound level in two differently designed spaces in one NICU. We hypothesized...