Publication Date:
1984-04-27
Description:
Records on recovery after cholecystectomy of patients in a suburban Pennsylvania hospital between 1972 and 1981 were examined to determine whether assignment to a room with a window view of a natural setting might have restorative influences. Twenty-three surgical patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out on a natural scene had shorter postoperative hospital stays, received fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses' notes, and took fewer potent analgesics than 23 matched patients in similar rooms with windows facing a brick building wall.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ulrich, R S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Apr 27;224(4647):420-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6143402" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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Aged
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Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use
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Cholecystectomy
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Female
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*Health Facilities
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*Health Facility Environment
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Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299
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Humans
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Length of Stay
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Male
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Middle Aged
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*Patients' Rooms
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Pennsylvania
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Postoperative Care/*psychology
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Postoperative Complications
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Postoperative Period
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Trees
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
