A Strategy for Noise Reduction to Improve Patient Experiences with Sleep (SNORES)

Authors

Vikas Sunder, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Eitan Frankel, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Neelam Upadhyaya, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Merlin Mathew, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Ritu Nahar, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Michael Brister, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Nicholas Young, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Yair Lev, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

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Description

Aim

Our aim was to improve patient-reported sleep satisfaction on the 5 W telemetry unit at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital over a 4 month time period (11/2018 to 2/2019) using a Marpac white noise machine.

Publication Date

6-6-2019

City

Philadelphia

Keywords

quality improvement, noise reduction, sleep, white noise machine, patient care

Disciplines

Internal Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences | Sleep Medicine

Comments

Presented at the 2019 House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference

Recommended Citation

Sunder, Vikas; Frankel, Eitan; Upadhyaya, Neelam; Mathew, Merlin; Nahar, Ritu; Brister, Michael; Young, Nicholas; and Lev, MD, Yair, "A Strategy for Noise Reduction to Improve Patient Experiences with Sleep (SNORES)" (2019). House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference (2016-2019). Poster 107.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/107