View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery
1984; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 224; Issue: 4647 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.6143402
ISSN1095-9203
Autores Tópico(s)Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
ResumoRecords 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.
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