Nearly 70 million Americans suffer from a chronic disorder of sleep that adversely affects
their health. 1 The National Academy of Medicine estimates that hundreds of billions of …

Background Sleep is a dynamic and essential part of human life and health. In healthcare
settings, nurses are strategically placed to promote sleep and sleep health. In this regard …

Patient and family engaged care (PFEC) is care planned, delivered, managed, and
continuously improved in active partnership with patients and their families (or care partners …

Background: Sleep plays a critical role in maintaining health and well-being; however,
patients who are hospitalized are frequently exposed to noise that can disrupt sleep. Efforts …

Background Sleep quality in hospitalized Canadian General Internal Medicine patients is
not well characterized. Our goals were to characterize hospital sleep quality in this …

Background Sound levels in intensive care units can be high. Unfortunately, high levels of
sound tend to result in poor sleep quality, which leads to slower healing, poorer immune …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES Despite the known adverse effects of sleep deprivation on
recovery from illness, studies have shown that sleep deprivation remains an incompletely …

Objective Poor sleep is highly prevalent in inpatient medical settings and has been
associated with attenuated healing and worsened outcomes following hospitalization …

Purpose Studies suggest that melatonin may prevent delirium, a condition of acute brain
dysfunction occurring in 20%-30% of hospitalized older adults that is associated with …

Hospitalized children and adolescents are at risk of short sleep and subsequent adverse
health effects, but little is known about actual sleep duration, the factors that cause sleep …