hospital care
Inpatient health services
Hospital care is medical treatment provided to patients admitted to a hospital, as distinguished from outpatient visits or home care.
The term appears frequently in healthcare policy and insurance contexts: The policy covers hospital care but not rehabilitation.
Hospital care typically involves overnight stays, monitoring, and access to specialized equipment and staff.
- defibrillationElectric cardiac rhythm reset
- emergency surgeryImmediate unscheduled medical procedure
- recovery roomWard for surgical aftermath
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
diagnostic imaging · infection control · rehabilitation center · bedside manner · medical rounds · patient monitoring · counseling services · telemedicine · nursing staff · ward · occupational therapy · hospice services · speech therapy · resuscitation · operating room · outpatient surgery · bedridden · bedpan
- nursingnurse, nursing, nurses, RN, LPN
- veteran benefitsVA benefits, VA loans, veteran benefits, GI Bill, disability benefits
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, clinic, clinics
- health insurancepremium, deductible, copay, coverage, health insurance card
- health issuescancer, asthma, diabetes, cholera, heart disease
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
hospital carehome care
Assistance provided at residence
home remedy · self-care · outpatient care · home nursing · self-treatment
hospital caremedical neglect
Failure to provide healthcare
abandonment · benign neglect · letting nature take its course · doing nothing · untreated illness
hospital carealternative medicine
Non-standard healing practices
folk medicine · traditional healing · holistic care · natural remedies · herbal treatment