Research Bibliography - Noise

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Allaouchiche B., Duflo F., Debon R., Bergeret A., Chassard D. Noise in the postanaesthesia care unit. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2002; 88(3):369-373.

Anari M, Axelsson A, Eliasson A, Magnusson L. Hypersensitivity to sound--questionnaire data, audiometry and classification. Scand Audiol. 1999;28(4):219-30.

Anari M, Axelsson A, Eliasson A, Magnusson L. Related Articles Hypersensitivity to sound--questionnaire data, audiometry and classification. Scand Audiol. 1999;28(4):219-30.

Baker CF. Sensory Overload and Noise in the ICU: Sources of Environmental Stress, Critical Care Quarterly 1984; 6; 66-80.

Banbury S, Macken W, Tremblay S, Jones D. Auditory distraction and short-term memory: phenomena and practical implications. Human Factors. 2001; 43(1): 12-29.

Bayo MV, Garcia A. Noise levels in an urban hospital and worker's subjective responses. Archives of Environmental Health. 1995; 50(3), 247-251.

Berglund B., Hassmen P, Job RF. Sources and effects of low-frequency noise. J Acoust Soc Am. 1996 May;99(5):2985-3002. Review.

Biley FC. Related Articles Effects of noise in hospitals. Br J Nurs. 1994 Feb 10-23;3(3):110-3. Review.

Buelow M. Noise level measurements in four Phonenix emergency departments. Journal of Emergency Nursing 2001; 27(1): 23-27.

Burgio L, Scilley K., Hardin JM, Hsu C, Yancey J. Environmental "white noise": An intervention for verbally agitated nursing home residents. Journal of Gerontology. 1996; 51B(6): 364-373.

Cabrera IN, Lee MH. Reducing noise pollution in the hospital setting by establishing a department of sound: a survey of recent research on the effects of noise and music in health care. Prev Med. 2000 Apr;30(4):339-45.

Cannella C, Meconi S, Percoco A, Comi R, Graziani MP. Noise and communal dining facilities. Ann Ig. 2000 Jul-Aug;12(4):315-22.

Capurso U. The sound during mandibular joint kinematics. The diagnostic, epidemiologic and prognostic elements. Minerva Stomatol. 1997 May;46(5):247-57. Review. Italian.

Cmiel C, Karr D, Gasser D, Oliphant L, Nevau A. Noise control: A nursing team's approach to sleep promotion. American Journal of Nursing. 2004; 104(2).

Dawson J, Fitzpatrick R, Murray D, Carr A. Related Articles. The problem of 'noise' in monitoring patient-based outcomes: generic, disease-specific and site-specific instruments for total hip replacement. J Health Serv Res Policy. 1996 Oct;1(4):224-31.

Grumet, GW. Pandemonium in the Hospital: Noise abuse in acute care facilities. New England Journal of Medicine, 1993,328:433-437.

Hagerman I, Rasmanis G, Blomkvist V, Ulrich R, Eriksen CA, Theorell, T.  Influence of intensive coronary care acoustics on quality of care and physiological state of patients. Int J Cardiol, 2005, Feb 15;98(2): 267-70. 

Hansell HN. The behavioral effects of noise on man: the patient with intensive care unit psychosis, Heart Lung 1984; 13:59-65.

Helmstetter FJ, Bellgowan PS. Related Articles Hypoalgesia in response to sensitization during acute noise stress. Behav Neurosci. 1994 Feb;108(1):177-85.

Johnson AN. Adapting the neonatal intensive care environment to decrease noise.

J Perinat Neonatal Nurs (United States), Oct-Nov 2003; 17(4):280-8.

Jokitulppo JS, Bjork EA, Akaan-Penttila E. Estimated leisure noise exposure and hearing symptoms in Finnish teenagers. Scand Audiol. 1997;26(4):257-62.

Koszarny Z. The effect of intensive traffic noise on well-being and self-assessed health status of urban population. Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig. 2000;51(2):191-201.

Magnavita V, Arslan E, Benini F. Noise exposure in neonatal intensive care units. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital. 1994 Sep-Oct;14(5):489-501.

Nzama NP, Nolte AG, Dorfling CS. "Noise in a neonatal unit: guidelines for the reduction or prevention of noise"; Curationis, 1995 Jun, 18 pp16-21.

Oguchi, Takashi. The effects of a sound environment on self-disclosure, Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; 1992,Jul. Vol 32(1) 27-33.

Hepper-PG; Shadullah-BS, Arch.Dis.Child. 1994 Sep.; 71(2): F81-7.

Sawada Y. Hemodynamic effects of short-term noise exposure–comparison of steady state and intermitten noise at several sound pressure levels, Jpn Circ J, 1993 Sep, pp 862-872.

Shankar N, Awasthy N, Mago H, Tandon OP. Analgesic effect of environmental noise: a possible stress response in rats. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 1999 Jul;43(3):337-46.

Topf M. Effects of personal control over hospital noise on sleep, Res. Nurs.-Health 1992 Feb; 15(1): 19-28.

Topf M. Stress effects of personal control over hospital noise. Behavioral Medicine. 1992-Summer; 18(2): 84-94.

Tun P, Wingfield A. One voice too many: adult age differences in language processing with different types of distracting sounds. Journal of Gerontology. 1999, 54B(5): 317-327.

Walsh-Sukys M, Reitenbach A, Hudson-Barr D, DePompei P. Reducing light and sound in the neonatal intensive care unit: An evaluation of patient safety, staff satisfaction, and costs. Journal of Perinatology. 2001; 21(4): 230-235.

White A, Burgess M. Strategies for reduction of noise levels in ICUs, August Adv Nurs, 1992 Dec-1993 Feb, 10 pp22-26.

Wu CC, Chen, SJ, Yen MH. Effects of noise on blood pressure and vascular reactivities, Clin-Exp-Phamacol-Physicoa. 1992-Dec; 833-8.

Yanagihashi R, Ohira M, Kimura T, Fujiwara T. Physiological and psychological assessment of sound. Int J Biometeorol. 1997 May;40(3):157-61.

Zimmer K, Ellermeir W. Psychometric Properties of four measures of noise sensititivy: A comparison. Journal of Environmental Pyschology. 1999; 19(3): 295-302.