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Admission

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

/ədˈmɪʃən/nounCore term

In healthcare management, admission means: The process of formally accepting a patient into hospital so that they can stay for treatment, or one single case of this.

In Turkish: yatış, hastaneye yatış, kabul

How it is used

Counted carefully in hospital statistics: daily admissions, emergency admissions, elective admissions. The verb is 'admit': a patient is admitted to a ward or under a consultant. Admission is the start of an inpatient stay; discharge is the end.

Example sentences

  1. Emergency admissions have gone up every Monday since the weekend clinics were closed.

  2. Please make sure every admission is recorded in the system before midnight.

Common collocations

  • emergency admission
  • elective admission
  • hospital admission
  • admission rate
  • avoid an admission
  • dischargeThe point when a patient officially leaves hospital care, usually to go home, after the team decides they no longer need to stay.
  • inpatientA patient who is admitted to hospital and stays at least one night in a bed for treatment, tests or observation.
  • bed managementThe daily work of tracking which beds are free, which patients need them and where each patient should go, so that beds are used well.
  • readmissionA patient's return to hospital as an inpatient soon after discharge, often within 30 days, which may point to problems with care or with the discharge.

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