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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023

Effects of Live Music on the Perception of Noise in the SICU/PICU: A Patient, Caregiver, and Medical Staff Environmental Study.

Andrew Rossetti, Joanne Loewy, Wen Chang-Lit, Nienke H van Dokkum, Erik Baumann, Gabrielle Bouissou, John Mondanaro, Todd O'Connor, Gabriela Asch-Ortiz, Hayato Mitaka

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In one paragraph

Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Workplace Mental Health Programs for Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  5. Sedation in Critically Ill Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Andrew RossettiThe Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Joanne LoewyThe Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7629-8286
Wen Chang-LitIndependent Researcher, New York, NY 11354, USA.
Nienke H van DokkumBeatrix Children's Hospital, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2706-0372
Erik BaumannInternational Association for Music and Medicine, Lima 15074, Peru.
Gabrielle BouissouNYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4244-4577
John MondanaroBrookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10019, USA.
Todd O'ConnorThe Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Gabriela Asch-OrtizMorgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY 10032, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3494-1787
Hayato MitakaDivision of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Mount Sinai Health System · USBeatrix Kinderziekenhuis · NLInternational Psychoanalytical Association · GBMorgan Stanley Children's Hospital · USMount Sinai Hospital · USNew York City Health and Hospitals Corporation · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) require a multidisciplinary team that consists of, but is not limited to, intensivists (clinicians who specialize in critical illness care), pharmacists and nurses, respiratory care therapists, and other medical consultants from a broad range of specialties. The complex and demanding critical care environment provides few opportunities for patients and personal and professional caregivers to evaluate how sound effects them. A growing body of literature attests to noise's adverse influence on patients' sleep, and high sound levels are a source of staff stress, as noise is an ubiquitous and noxious stimuli. Vulnerable patients have a low threshold tolerance to audio-induced stress. Despite these indications, peak sound levels often register as high, as can ventilators, and the documented noise levels in hospitals continue to rise. This baseline study, carried out in two hospitals' Surgical and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, measured the effects of live music on the perception of noise through surveying patients, personal caregivers and staff in randomized conditions of no music, and music as provided by music therapists through our hospital system's environmental music therapy program.

Indexed as

CaregiversNoiseChildHumansIntensive Care Units, PediatricMedical StaffPerceptionenvironmental music therapyfragile hospital environmentshospital environmentsICU noisemusic perceptionnoise perception

Identifiers

PMID36834194
PMCPMC9958835
OpenAlexW4321091458

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