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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 room with windows facing a
brick building wall.
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