SleepSure: a pilot randomized-controlled trial to assess the effects of eye masks and earplugs on the quality of sleep for patients in hospital.

Objective:: To determine the short-term effects of supplying hospital inpatients with earplugs and eye masks, preparatory to a full-scale trial.

Design:: A single-centre, open-label, two-arm, parallel group, randomized-controlled trial.

Setting:: A total of 13 medical and surgical wards in a large teaching hospital in the United Kingdom.