Definition of Hospitalisation

1. Noun. Placing in medical care in a hospital.

Exact synonyms: Hospital Care, Hospitalization
Generic synonyms: Medical Aid, Medical Care
Derivative terms: Hospitalise, Hospitalize

Definition of Hospitalisation

1. Noun. The hospitalising of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital. ¹

2. Noun. Insurance that pays a patient's expenses. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Hospitalisation

1. The confinement of a patient in a hospital or the period of such confinement. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospitalisation

hospital planning
hospital record
hospital records
hospital restructuring
hospital room
hospital shared services
hospital ship
hospital ships
hospital shops
hospital train
hospital units
hospital volunteers
hospital ward
hospitaler
hospitalisable
hospitalisation
hospitalisations
hospitalise
hospitalised
hospitalises
hospitalising
hospitalism
hospitalist
hospitalists
hospitalities
hospitality
hospitalizable
hospitalization
hospitalization insurance
hospitalizations

Literary usage of Hospitalisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Foetus by John William Ballantyne (1902)
"... XXVII Hygiene and Therapeutics of F«?tal Life : the Hospitalisation of the Pregnant ; "Plea for a Pre-Maternity Hospital" ¡ "Sanatoria de grossesse"; ..."

2. Measuring Up: Improving Health System Performance in Oecd Countries by Canada Health Canada (2002)
"The most frequently used nonclinical process indicators are length of hospitalisation, rates of unplanned readmission, and volumes of activity by type of ..."

3. OECD Economic Surveys: Hungary by OECD Staff (2005)
"Preventing uneconomic hospitalisation Relatively easy access to hospital specialists, along with longer periods of hospitalisation and a relatively large ..."

4. Oil statistics= by Projet de l'OCDE sur la santé (1976)
"La plupart des polices d'assurance-maladie privée couvrent une part des dépenses d'hospitalisation. Tous les régimes publics couvrent les frais ..."

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