Healthcare
High confidenceHospital noise, still above the WHO floor
Behaviour and training cut ward noise by 4.8 dB. For tunable lighting on a general ward the evidence is not there yet.
- Key findings
- Hospitals run loud and bright around the clock
- Noise is the better proven lever, and it is proven in the ward
- Light helps patients with disrupted circadian systems
- Air, humidity and temperature point the right way but are too thin to decide on
- What the evidence does not yet show
- Implications
- Methodology
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