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Article: Trouble Sleeping in the Hospital? Maybe It's That Jackhammer.
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- February 4, 2004
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ROCHESTER, Minnesota, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A Mayo Clinic nursing team looking into reasons why patients have difficulty sleeping in the hospital after surgery found surprisingly high peak noise levels, rivalling those produced by a jackhammer. The findings, and the steps the team has taken to counteract the problem, are published in the February issue of American Journal of Nursing.
"Adequate sleep is important to the healing process, and sleeping in the hospital is notoriously difficult," says Cheryl Cmiel, the lead author of the paper. "Our continuous improvement team wanted to find specific causes for the problem, and see what concrete steps we could ...