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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inpatient
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inpatient

Inpatient \In"pa`tient\, n. A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inpatient

1760 (n.); 1959 (adj.), from in + patient.

Wiktionary
inpatient

alt. A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient. n. A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.

WordNet
inpatient

n. a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated [syn: inmate] [ant: outpatient]

Usage examples of "inpatient".

Kim went off to see his inpatients and then attend the series of hospital conferences scheduled for that morning.

He knew he should be seeing his own inpatients, but for the moment he was incapable.

Besides, Judi-th had no idea how badly his inpatients were doing, especially Matthew Cowen, and Jason was embarrassed to tell her.

I spend most of my time on the phone to the bastards in managed care, trying to give these borderlines as much time as they need as inpatients here.

Richter made rounds on his own postoperative inpatients: two retinal detachments with difficult medical histories.