admission (redirected from hospital admission)

admission,

1 the act of being received into a place or class of things.

2 a patient accepted for inpatient service in a hospital.

3 a concession or acknowledgment.

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admission,

n the voluntary concession or admission that a fact or allegation is true.

admission, hospital,

n 1. a full stay. The formal acceptance by a hospital or other inpatient health care facility of a patient who is to be provided with room, board, and continuous nursing service in an area of the hospital or facility where patients generally reside at least overnight.
n 2. a surgicenter with short stays. Day bed only with nursing; patient does not stay overnight.
n 3. an outpatient admission. Pertains to a patient who enters the hospital but requires no bed; the patient enters for treatment and leaves after treatment.

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admission

Hospital practice An episode of in-hospital health care. See Frequent flyer, Nth admission, Readmission.