Hospitalization
Hospitalization - placement in an inpatient medical institution (hospital, maternity hospital, hospital, etc.) of persons in need of medical care, treatment, obstetrics or in-depth medical examination.
Hospitalization types:
- temporary in military medicine: hospitalization of a sick or injured person, whose evacuation was delayed until his condition improved or conditions that impeded evacuation changed (meteorological, combat situation, etc.);
- decentralized: carried out in accordance with the direction of the outpatient clinic to the hospital, which is assigned to this institution;
- planned: produced within the planned period, set taking into account medical indications by the doctor of the outpatient clinic and, as a rule, agreed with the hospital;
- repeated: caused by an illness, in connection with which the patient was previously (in the same calendar year) placed for inpatient treatment in any medical institution;
- centralized: carried out in agreement with an organization specially formed in large cities to keep records and distribute free hospital beds;
- emergency: performed when urgent medical care is needed directly by the admission department of the hospital without a doctor's referral, or if there is a referral from emergency and urgent medical care institutions.
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