0 a person who goes into hospital to receive medical care, and stays there one or more nights while they are being treated --
1 a person who stays one or more nights in a hospital in order to receive medical care: --
Analysis was targeted to the sectors for ambulatory care, inpatient acute care, and rehabilitation care.
In this manner, brief focused family interventions followed by preventative maintenance sessions may decrease inpatient care costs in the long run.
For each inpatient episode and outpatient visit in the electronic record, a specific unit cost was stated.
We took a closer look at this issue by estimating the determinants of inpatient mortality, using categorical dummy variables for procedure volume.
There were several gatekeepers to inpatient admissions at voluntary hospitals.
Some inpatients decided not to attend such events because they wanted to be alone or because they just did not like such events.
The second limitation is a failure to control for the introduction of new medical technologies, which could affect the production of inpatient hospital admissions.
This finding was attributed to lack of inpatient economies of scale and low occupancy in orthopedic/ surgical hospitals.
