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Hospitals learn that sleep is good medicine
“Patients really don’t sleep in the hospital,” says Margaret Pisani, a pulmonary critical care doctor at Yale University School of Medicine, adding that lack of sleep is what patients complain about most.
In addition to leaving patients cranky, lack of sleep can slow recovery and trigger the confusion of delirium, which can lead to longer hospital stays and even dementia, she says.
Source: USA TODAY