inpatient

See also: impatient and in-patient

English

Alternative forms

• in-patient

Etymology

in +‎ patient

Noun

inpatient (plural inpatients)

1. (healthcare) A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.
   • 1998, Maria Owings, ‎Lola Jean Kozak, Ambulatory and Inpatient Procedures in the United States, 1996, Issue 139

     For three of the four regions, the number and rate of procedures was higher in inpatient than in ambulatory settings, but in the Midwest the differences between settings were not statistically significant.

Antonyms

• outpatient

Translations

A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 住院病人 (zhù yuàn bìng rén)

• Finnish: sairaalapotilas, sisäpotilas
• French: patient hospitalier m
• German: stationärer Patient m
• Greek: εσωτερικός ασθενής m (esoterikós asthenís)
• Hungarian: fekvőbeteg, bentfekvő
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• Portuguese: internado (pt) m
• Russian: стациона́рный больно́й m (stacionárnyj bolʹnój), стациона́рный пацие́нт m (stacionárnyj paciént)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: stacionarni pacijent m, hospitalizirani pacijent m

• Spanish: paciente (es) m
• Thai: ผู้ป่วยใน