predischarged

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Verb

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predischarged

  1. simple past and past participle of predischarge

Adjective

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predischarged (comparative more predischarged, superlative most predischarged)

  1. Having discharge authorized at the time of admission; short-term
    • 1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Long-Term Care, Trends in Long-term Care, page 2068:
      Self-administration of medications by patients is not permitted except for emergency drugs on special order of the patient's physician or in a predischarged program under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
    • 1978, Code of Federal Regulations, page 841:
      Any course for the educationally disadvantaged or the predischarged education program offered by a proprietary nonprofit educational institution, at the principal or branch location, when the institution offering the course has been in operation for more than 2 years.
    • 2013, Issues in Nursing by Specialty:
      A convenience sample of 120 predischarged patients participated in a survey conducted on neurosurgical and orthopaedic wards in a university hospital in Istanbul 2006.