outpatient

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inpatient | American Dictionary

inpatient
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɪnˌpeɪ·ʃənt/
a person who stays one or more nights in a hospital in order to receive medical care:
His insurance company is unwilling to pay for inpatient treatment.

Examples of inpatient

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A group of 27 older adults in inpatient rehabilitation were interviewed during the programme and after returning home.
The average annualized number of outpatient visits was substantially higher for each disease state compared with the number of inpatient episodes.
Costs were based on frequencies of inpatient and outpatient visits, diagnostic and laboratory testing, medication, and medical procedures associated with the specific health states.
Unit costs of inpatient days and outpatient visits were directly derived from the cost-estimation model.
A technique for studying psychiatric morbidity in inpatient and outpatient series and in general population samples.
The costs of inpatient care were based on data on diagnosis-related group discharge statistics.
Once the practical limit of abbreviated inpatient stays is reached, further efficiencies will be attainable chiefly by addressing clinical practices themselves.
This finding was attributed to lack of inpatient economies of scale and low occupancy in orthopedic/ surgical hospitals.
The second limitation is a failure to control for the introduction of new medical technologies, which could affect the production of inpatient hospital admissions.
Some inpatients decided not to attend such events because they wanted to be alone or because they just did not like such events.
There were several gatekeepers to inpatient admissions at voluntary hospitals.
We took a closer look at this issue by estimating the determinants of inpatient mortality, using categorical dummy variables for procedure volume.
For each inpatient episode and outpatient visit in the electronic record, a specific unit cost was stated.
In this manner, brief focused family interventions followed by preventative maintenance sessions may decrease inpatient care costs in the long run.
Analysis was targeted to the sectors for ambulatory care, inpatient acute care, and rehabilitation care.
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