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- 2018
Noise in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A New Approach to Examining Acoustic EventsKeywords: acoustic environment, hospital noise, infant development, neonatal intensive care unit, physiologic monitoring Abstract: Environmental noise is associated with negative developmental outcomes for infants treated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The existing noise level recommendations are outdated, with current studies showing that these standards are universally unattainable in the modern NICU environment
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