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Ensuring quieter hospital environments.
This is the fourth in a series of articles from Planetree, an international nonprofit organization founded in 1978 that's "committed to improving medical care from the patient's perspective." For more information, go to www.planetree.org.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mechanical Engineering
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0025-6501,1943-5649
DOI: 10.1115/1.2013-jun-1