Abstract
With the development of new standards in the health care industry, design professionals will soon have additional construction criteria to ensure speech privacy in new facilities. There are currently sound transmission class (STC) ratings required for partitions in a healthcare setting outlined in the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Healthcare Facilities. These currently implemented criteria have traditionally focused on patient personal privacy and not speech privacy. This effort will be a general analysis to determine the shortcomings of these standards with respect to speech privacy and a cost-privacy analysis for commonly used wall constructions. Wall constructions included in the analysis will be suitable for a healthcare setting. Commonly referenced published, modeled, and measured transmission loss across partitions will be shown. The privacy indices will be evaluated for each configuration. The talk will highlight that, in most cases, no extraordinary measures will be needed to ensure reasonable safeguards have been implemented.
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