Named Groups

Inpatients

Persons admitted to health facilities which provide board and room, for the purpose of observation, care, diagnosis or treatment.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Persons admitted to health facilities which provide board and room, for the purpose of observation, care, diagnosis or treatment.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Inpatient

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Aspects Covered

6 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

inpatients as people or as a social, sociol, psychol, etc., group; do not confuse with HOSPITALIZATION

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History Note

91(80); was see under PATIENTS 1980-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Hospitalization (1966-1979)
  • Patients (1966-1979)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. M01w.643w.470

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Inpatients. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007297. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007297
  2. Inpatients. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69946613