单词 | inpatient |
释义 | inpatientn. A patient who stays in hospital for one or more nights while under medical treatment. Cf. outpatient n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > in hospital patientc1387 tanton man1515 spittle-man1593 inpatient1738 day patient1754 in-case1840 hospitaller1857 1738 Polit. State Great Brit. May 477 There are now sixty Beds fitted up for In-patients; by which Means it is presumed, that hardly any proper Object will ever be rejected for Want of Room. 1761 S. More in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 938 Thinking, that if he was admitted an in-patient at the hospital, he should be more likely to obtain a cure. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 693 Four of these were also inpatients of the hospital. 1946 Nature 26 Oct. 578/2 It is proposed to establish a diagnostic and research centre at the teaching hospital..to deal with short-stay in-patients and out-patients. 2015 BBC Focus Sept. 75/3 Baking classes boosted confidence in a group of inpatients in mental health clinics. Compounds General use as a modifier. ΚΠ 1877 Edinb. Rev. July 157 When unusual sickness or severe accident comes upon them, and they require in-patient treatment. 1906 Ann. Rep. Dept. Public Health 1905–6 (Parl. Tasmania) 5 During the year 103 cases of Typhoid have been treated, with an average in-patient stay of some 44 days. 1917 J. M. Campbell Rep. Physical Welfare Mothers & Children II. 51 The in-patient beds also afford opportunity to pupils of being present at additional cases and of observing the treatment given for various forms of abnormal labour. 1919 Hospital Managem. Dec. 37/1 In order that their service may reach a much larger number of mothers than the inpatient facilities of those hospitals can accommodate. 1950 Hospitals June 126/3 Annual average inpatient admissions increased from 117 per thousand members for 1948 to 118 for 1949. 1962 Index-digest Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 1956–61 (U.S. Gen. Accounting Office) 38/1 Appropriation for inpatient care in Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1957. 1977 Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Rep. 25 Mar. 99/2 Registered nurses on inpatient units. 2000 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 26 Nov. 28/1 Queensland's pilot Drug Court needs 50 extra rehabilitation-centre beds to cope with offenders needing inpatient treatment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1738 |
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