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. 2012 Jan 9;172(1):68-70.
doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.603.

Noise and sleep among adult medical inpatients: far from a quiet night

Jordan C Yoder, Paul G Staisiunas, David O Meltzer, Kristen L Knutson, Vineet M Arora

Noise and sleep among adult medical inpatients: far from a quiet night

Jordan C Yoder et al. Arch Intern Med. .
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Predicted values of sleep duration across tertiles of average nighttime noise level from a multivariate linear regression model (85 patients; 117 nights) shows a difference of 76 minutes in sleep duration between quietest and loudest tertile (P=.01). Boxes represent interquartile range and bars represent overall range.
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