View through a window may influence recovery from surgery

View through a window may influence recovery from surgery

Ulrich RS

Science

1984

Female; Male; Adult; Analgesics; Pennsylvania; Aged; Length of Stay; U.S. Gov't; Comparative Study; Human; Support; Middle Age; Postoperative Period; Non-P.H.S.; Hospital Bed Capacity; Postoperative Complications; Health Facilities; Health Facility Environment; Patients' Rooms; Postoperative Care/px [Psychology]; 100 to 299; Cholecystectomy; Opioid/tu [Therapeutic Use]; Trees

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.

1984

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