title: Patient care. Shhh, quiet please!
abstract: Silence is golden--and critical to patient recovery. But nurses at the Mayo Clinic found that it is hard to come by. Administrators at Mayo and elsewhere are working to reduce the noise.
authors.forename: Dagmara
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scalise
mesh_terms: D006757:Hospital Units / Q000592:standards*; D006770:Hospitals, Group Practice; D006801:Humans; D008910:Minnesota; D009623:Noise, Occupational / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010362:Patients' Rooms / Q000592:standards*; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation