Monitoring Indoor Air Quality in Hospitals and Its Impact on Patient Recovery

Abstract

Indoor air quality in hospital wards is no longer a secondary concern buried in building codes; it shapes how and how quickly patients get well. This study seeks a reliable method to pin down that idea by logging airborne dust, fumes, spores, and other pollutants in real time and then lining those numbers up with charts of fever, mobility, and discharge dates. Early runs of the data hint that surges in fine particulate matter, whiffs of volatile-organic compounds, and clouds of microbial-laden aerosols box the immune system in, stretch out infection chains, and keep beds occupied longer than anyone planned. None of that is accidental; clean-air management, properly tracked, is turning out to be as central to bedside decision-making as medication dosages and fluid balances. Making the air inside meet that expectation could trim recovery times, cut readmission figures, and ease the relentless squeeze on already stretched hospital resources.