Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 4 , Pages 208-213 , August 2009

Patients’ perception of music versus ordinary sound in a postanaesthesia care unit: A randomised crossover trial

  • Ann-Charlotte Fredriksson

      Affiliations

    • Dep. Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Malmoe University Hospital, Sweden
    • Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Nursing, Malmö University, Sweden
    • ,
  • Leif Hellström

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Nursing, Malmö University, Sweden
    • ,
  • Ulrica Nilsson

      Affiliations

    • Dep. Anesthesia and Intensive Care/Centre for Health Care Sciences, Örebro University Hospital, P.O. Box 1324, SE-70113 Örebro, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 19 60 28 44; fax: +46 19 611 38 18.

,Accepted 6 April 2009.

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PII: S0964-3397(09)00029-9

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.04.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 4 , Pages 208-213 , August 2009

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