as in outpatient
a person who stays for one or more nights in a hospital for medical treatment
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inpatient surgery It was inpatient treatment that required a lengthy hospital stay.
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Recent Examples of inpatient
More inpatient care options are necessary to prevent incidents like the stabbing incident, Torres said.
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Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
Some people can be treated within the community, whereas others may require an inpatient stay.
—Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
If Crain had experienced these same delays as an inpatient, Fails would have needed to establish that the hospital violated medical standards.
—Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
While inpatient hospice care costs £3,000 to £4,000 weekly, the administration of a cocktail of poisons or treatment in a portable gas chamber will cost a negligible fraction of that.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
Some people can be treated within the community, whereas others may require an inpatient stay.
—Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
If Crain had experienced these same delays as an inpatient, Fails would have needed to establish that the hospital violated medical standards.
—Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
While inpatient hospice care costs £3,000 to £4,000 weekly, the administration of a cocktail of poisons or treatment in a portable gas chamber will cost a negligible fraction of that.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Inpatient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inpatient. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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