Morrison, Wynne E. MD; Haas, Ellen C. PhD; Shaffner, Donald H. MD; Garrett, Elizabeth S. PhD; Fackler, James C. MD
From the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care (WEM, DHS, JCF), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Human Research and Engineering Directorate (ECH), U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; and the Department of Biostatistics (ESG), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Supported, in part, by a grant from the General Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital as a component of National Institutes of Health grant M01-RR00052.
In this small study, we showed that noise is potentially a significant contributor to higher heart rates and tachycardia among nurses, as well as to nurses’ stress and annoyance.
