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View through a window may influence recovery from surgery.
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.
PMID: 6143402 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Hu Z, Liebens J, Rao KR.
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ReviewPain in its environmental context: implications for designing environments to enhance pain control.
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[Pain. 2008]
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