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Science 27 April 1984:
Vol. 224. no. 4647, pp. 420 - 421
DOI: 10.1126/science.6143402

Articles

Science, Vol 224, Issue 4647, 420-421
Copyright © 1984 by American Association for the Advancement of Science


articles

View through a window may influence recovery from surgery

RS Ulrich

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.


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