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inpatient Definition

in·pa·tient (in′pā′s̸hənt)

noun

a patient who is lodged and fed in a hospital, clinic, etc. while receiving treatment

inpatient Usage Examples

Preposition: with

  • diabetes: Formal links need to be made with the wards to ensure that inpatients with diabetes receive appropriate care.

Converse of object

  • treat: It employs about 15,000 staff across eight sites and treats 125,000 inpatients, 65,000 day cases and 700,000 outpatients each year.

Adjective modifier

  • elective: There will also be the relocation of some adult elective inpatient surgical services from the John Radcliffe hospital into this new building.
  • psychiatric: This report investigates the experiences of acute psychiatric inpatients with the aim of improving acute psychiatric services.
  • acute: They don't have to work in intensive care or acute orthopedic inpatients.
  • elderly: The febrile response to mild infections in elderly hospital inpatients.
  • mental: The testing for infectious diseases was inadequate, and the provision of a regime for mental health inpatients was poor.
  • medical: Up till that point, medical oncology inpatients had been treated in a general medical ward.

Modifies a noun

  • detoxification: However, in Britain much of the inpatient detoxification takes place on general psychiatric wards with much less specialist input.
  • camhs: Further research is required into how young people from ethnic minorities are dealt with in inpatient CAMHS.
  • stays: It is funded by donations, although some patients pay for medicines and inpatient stays.
  • ward: Ruskin Ward is an 18 bedded female only, adult acute inpatient ward based at The York Clinic, Guys Hospital.
  • psychiatry: What do we know about medication errors in inpatient psychiatry?
  • admission: In the future inpatient admissions were to be a last resort for treating mental illness.

Noun used with modifier

  • hospital: Hospital inpatients are dealt with by the Hospital social work team based at the Royal United Hospital.
  • emergency: These facilities ensure appropriate assessment for all emergency inpatients.
  • preference: Which they do preference inpatient and for example percent affect the spending.
  • specialist: The perinatal unit will provide specialist inpatient care for mothers with mental health problems.
  • NHS: It plans to follow up this investigation by developing an audit of NHS inpatient services.
  • adult: In 2001/2 UK Trusts providing acute services were asked to conduct a postal survey to find out about the experiences of adult inpatients.