inpatient
pronunciation
How to pronounce inpatient in British English:
UK [ˈɪnpeɪʃnt]
How to pronounce inpatient in American English:
US [ˈɪnˌpeʃənt]
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- Noun:
- a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
Word Origin
- inpatient
- 1760 (n.); 1959 (adj.), from in + patient.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Methodology of victorian patient satisfaction monitoring of inpatient services .
- 2. He proposes that acute inpatient beds should be a high priority in community mental health and lengths of stay should not be unreasonably short .
- 3. Methods : a retrospective review of the use of pharmacy software , data networking systems analysis , comprehensive analysis of our hospital from june to november 2009 , 725 cases of inpatient antibiotic use .
- 4. Outpatient and inpatient diabetes care delivery .
- 5. Safety nursing for senile stroke inpatient .