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definition
A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.
Examples of inpatients in a Sentence
There were no cases of CR inpatients with well differentiated adenocarcinoma.
It employs about 15,000 staff across eight sites and treats 125,000 inpatients, 65,000 day cases and 700,000 outpatients each year.
This report investigates the experiences of acute psychiatric inpatients with the aim of improving acute psychiatric services.
They don't have to work in intensive care or acute orthopedic inpatients.
The febrile response to mild infections in elderly hospital inpatients.
The testing for infectious diseases was inadequate, and the provision of a regime for mental health inpatients was poor.
Up till that point, medical oncology inpatients had been treated in a general medical ward.
These facilities ensure appropriate assessment for all emergency inpatients.
In 2001/2 UK Trusts providing acute services were asked to conduct a postal survey to find out about the experiences of adult inpatients.