Clinical review The impact of noise on patients sleep and the effectiveness of noise reduction strategies in intensive care units.docVIP

Available online /content/13/2/208 Review Clinical review: The impact of noise on patients’ sleep and the effectiveness of noise reduction strategies in intensive care units Hui Xie1,2, Jian Kang1 and Gary H Mills2 1School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom 2Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Hui Xie, h.xie@sheffield.ac.uk, yanshencun@ Published: 9 March 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:208 (doi:10.1186/cc7154) This article is o