View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery

作者：Roger S. Ulrich · 发表于：Science · 年份：1984 · DOI：10.1126/science.6143402 · 被引用次数：5282 · 研究领域：Urban Green Space and Health、Music Therapy and Health、Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units

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.