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Get the latest trends, tools, and resources for improving healthcare environments here. Browse our many free and members-only resources, including research reports and issue briefs, interviews, case studies, design strategies, lessons learned, key point summaries, and webinars.

    Issue Brief

    Going Quiet: Best Practices
    March 2014 ∘ Issue Brief

    As part of the noise toolbox, in this issue brief you will learn about how excessive noise can negatively impact patients and staff in the hospital environment, ways to improve patients’ perception of sound, and low-cost, medium-cost, and high-cost design strategies that can reduce noise.
    Lessons Learned

    Lessons Learned About Noise in the Hospital Setting

    August 2014 ∘ Lessons Learned

    The following are compiled from research literature, case studies, interviews, and other materials to provide an overview on the topic of noise.