HOSPITALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospitalization mean? 

• HOSPITALIZATION (noun)
  The noun HOSPITALIZATION has 4 senses:

1. a period of time when you are confined to a hospital

2. the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital

3. insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense

4. placing in medical care in a hospital

  Familiarity information: HOSPITALIZATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSPITALIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of time when you are confined to a hospital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization

Hypernyms ("hospitalization" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Derivation:

hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization

Hypernyms ("hospitalization" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

hospitalization; hospitalization insurance

Hypernyms ("hospitalization" is a kind of...):

health insurance (insurance against loss due to ill health)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Placing in medical care in a hospital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hospital care; hospitalisation; hospitalization

Hypernyms ("hospitalization" is a kind of...):

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

Derivation:

hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

 Context examples 

Clinical diagnosis of heart failure during a hospitalization, of which heart failure was not the admitting diagnosis.

(Heart Failure During Hospitalization, NCI Thesaurus)

Healthcare resource utilization data such as subject visits to physicians, hospitalizations, and nursing home stays.

(Healthcare Resource Utilization Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The description of an event that occurred in an individual during the hospitalization period.

(Hospitalization Event, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication or description that an extended period of hospitalization is necessary.

(Hospitalization or Prolongation of Existing Hospitalization Required, NCI Thesaurus)

Very sick; hospitalization necessary; active support treatment is necessary.

(Karnofsky Performance Status 20, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether the subject requires hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization.

(Hospitalization Required Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The individual assigned to be the primary care manager overseeing a patient's medical care during an episode of hospitalization.

(Attending Health Care Provider, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical diagnosis of angina during a hospitalization, of which angina was not the admitting diagnosis.

(Angina During Hospitalization, NCI Thesaurus)

The patients had normal hemoglobin, fewer hospitalizations, and lower use of narcotics to treat pain from the disease.

(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)

An indication or description that an adverse event is associated with or prolongs hospitalization.

(Adverse Event associated with Hospitalization, NCI Thesaurus)