View through a window may influence recovery from surgery.
Records on recovery after cholecystectomy of patients in a suburban Pennsylvania hospital between 1972 and 1981 were examined to determine whether assignment to a room with a window view of a natural setting might have restorative influences. Twenty-three surgical patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out on a natural scene had shorter postoperative hospital stays, received fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses' notes, and took fewer potent analgesics than 23 matched patients in similar rooms with windows facing a brick building wall.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D005260:Female; D006268:Health Facilities; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011184:Postoperative Period; D014197:Trees
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid