Welch Allyn WhisperDrive™ Technology #1 Patient Complaint is Often Noise Fact: Hospitals are noisy, and patients complain about the noise from alarms, paging systems, clanking rolling carts and hallway conversations as a few of the top offenders. Press-Ganey concluded in a study that patients actually complained twice as much about noise in hospitals than the food.1 Between the years 2011 and 2013, Quietness of Hospital Environment ranked at or near the bottom in patient satisfaction according to a survey performed by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems.2 • Patient’s sleep was disturbed • eart rate rose whether or not the patient woke due H to the noise • edatives given to patients to rest through the noise S could produce serious side effects such as falls and delirium, leading to a longer hospital stay6 Improving Noise Levels in the Hospital Understanding the importance of patient care and the effects that noise may have, Welch Allyn has introduced the new WhisperDrive stand technology into the Connex® Spot Monitor Accessory Power Management (APM) and Classic Mobile Stands. Patients are not the only ones complaining about noise. In a survey by the Beryl Institute, hospital administrators have ranked noise reduction as their top priority.3 “55% of the hospitals questioned agreed that equipment, such as carts, is the number one cause of noise.”4 Additionally, in 2012, Medicare began tying hospital reimbursement to patient ratings on quality of care. Quality of care measures include patient satisfaction ratings, measured by the HCAHPS Survey. Recent data shows that noise represented the lowest satisfaction rating among 12 domains included in the survey.5 How Noise Can Affect a Patient’s Healing Noise is an added stressor to patient healing, which directly affects patient satisfaction scores. Researchers at Harvard Medical School conducted a study on the impact of noise on patients’ sleep and concluded the following: LED lighting helps clinicians work in dark rooms and prevents nighttime disturbance Dedicated organization space and plastic bins help reduce rattling and noise from hanging accessories WhisperDrive technology and large casters provide quiet

The design greatly subdues the noise typically emitted by caster-based wheels that are standard in hospital mobile carts/stands. In a side-by-side comparison with leading competitive multi-parameter vital signs mobile stands, the Welch Allyn stands have been shown to be the quietest. WELCH ALLYN VS COMPETITIVE STANDS WITH DEVICES SOUND EMITTED BY WELCH ALLYN STAND WITH WHISPER DRIVE TECHNOLOGY™ WITH THE CONNEX SPOT MONITOR AS COMPARED TO COMPETITORS *In order to collect adequate sound data, a series of floor strips were used to produce continuous, constant and realistic sound. Each stand was...