{"id":14520,"date":"2016-09-11T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14520"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T17:30:48","slug":"changing-the-hospital-soundscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/changing-the-hospital-soundscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing The Hospital Soundscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/091116_1728_ChangingThe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Alix Brown wrote about hospitals and the battle for quiet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between beeping monitors, shuffling orderlies, and moaning patients, hospitals are not known for their silence.<\/li>\n<li>And it&#8217;s getting worse. According to one study noise levels at some hospitals are 100 decibels\u2013 as loud as a chainsaw.<\/li>\n<li>This is a problem since the hospital environment doesn&#8217;t encourage sleep \u2013 which is crucial to healing.<\/li>\n<li>The beeping machines could be replaced with wearables that monitor vitals and automatically inform hospital staff if something is going wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Other sounds could be blocked by the simple act of closing doors to patient rooms \u2013 at the moment hospital staff like to keep them upon so they can keep an eye on everybody.<\/li>\n<li>Some are looking into the kinds of ambient music that can be played to promote healing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the battle to hush hospitals <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/769487\/hospital-noise-and-health\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/769487\/hospital-noise-and-health\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Alix Brown wrote about hospitals and the battle for quiet: Between beeping monitors, shuffling orderlies, and moaning patients, hospitals are not known for their silence. And it&#8217;s getting worse. According to one study noise levels at some hospitals are 100 decibels\u2013 as loud as a chainsaw. This is a problem since the hospital environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/091116_1728_ChangingThe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14524,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions\/14524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}