0 past simple and past participle of hospitalize
1 to take someone to hospital and keep them there for treatment:
His wife's been hospitalized for depression.
She has been continuously hospitalized since she was in her teens.
These patients included the 4 hospitalized children and 4 who were over 20 years of age, 3 of whom were elderly.
The predominant diagnoses of the hospitalized adolescents were mood or disruptive behavior disorders.
Of the 38 outbreaks for which hospitalization was reported, the median number of persons hospitalized was 5 (range 0 -170).
Hospitalized patients usually have fairly good access to echocardiography, whereas community-based elderly patients, particularly those with mobility problems, may have more limited access to investigations.
He was hospitalized at nine years of age for endocarditis requiring intravenous antibiotics for six weeks.
The revolving door between nursing homes and acute care means that such increase inevitably reaches high risk hospitalized patients.
The majority of cases were hospitalized, with the median proportion of cases hospitalized being 96 % (annual range 94-8 %).