INPATIENT


Meaning of INPATIENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

inpatient/outpatient care (= for people in hospital/not in hospital )

Outpatient care is generally less expensive than a stay in hospital.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

psychiatric

There must always be an opportunity for psychiatric inpatient care when required.

Care on discharge A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment.

This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient .

■ NOUN

care

David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support.

Thus, for example, they were more likely than the psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric disorder or recommend inpatient care .

There must always be an opportunity for psychiatric inpatient care when required.

hospital

In both of these studies the control group, hospital inpatients and community controls, had unusually high smoking rates.

treatment

Jim Brydon, deputy unit manager, said the ophthalmology department was concentrating on reducing waiting times for patients needing inpatient treatment .

Care on discharge A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In both of these studies the control group, hospital inpatients and community controls, had unusually high smoking rates.

Maberly and I reported results in inpatients with asthma and are doing an outpatient double blind randomised trial of neutralisation.

Many are sited in hospital grounds near the inpatient unit.

The companies began limiting inpatient stays, putting more emphasis on outpatient services.

The number of inpatients treated from other districts is more than 50 percent in one district in ten.

The six pilot sites are concentrating on the use of Diagnosis Related Groups which cover only adult acute inpatients.

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