inpatient services
Admitted medical treatment
Inpatient services are medical care provided to patients who are formally admitted to a hospital or facility and stay overnight.
The term distinguishes from outpatient services, where patients go home the same day.
Insurance coverage, billing, and treatment protocols often differ significantly between inpatient and outpatient care: The surgery required three days of inpatient services.
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- nursing staffHealthcare workers tending patients
- physical therapyRehabilitative movement-based medical care
- intensive careSpecialized treatment for severe illness
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Treatment without overnight stay
ambulatory care · outpatient care · day surgery · outpatient treatment · emergency room visit
inpatient servicesself-care
Maintaining personal wellbeing
home health care · home care · community care · home nursing · telehealth
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