| Descriptor English: | Hospitalization | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: | Hospitalización 
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Hospitalização | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Hospitalisation | ||||||
| Entry term(s): | Hospitalizations | ||||||
| Tree number(s): | E02.760.400 N02.421.585.400 VS3.003.001.002 | ||||||
| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006760 | ||||||
| Scope note: | The confinement of a patient in a hospital. | ||||||
| Annotation: | being in a hosp or being placed in a hosp: do not confuse with PATIENT ADMISSION or PATIENT READMISSION | ||||||
| Allowable Qualifiers: | EC                                                            economics LJ legislation & jurisprudence SN statistics & numerical data TD trends | ||||||
| Related: | Child, Hospitalized
                                            MeSH Institutionalization MeSH Length of Stay MeSH Patient Discharge MeSH | ||||||
| DeCS ID: | 6916 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | D006760 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
| Date Established: | 1966/01/01 | ||||||
| Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||||
| Revision Date: | 2015/06/29 | 
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                                        ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT
 
 Therapeutics [E02]Therapeutics
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 SURVEILLANCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH
 Health Services Surveillance [VS3]Health Services Surveillance
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                | Concept UI | M0010589 | 
| Scope note | The confinement of a patient in a hospital. | 
| Preferred term | Hospitalization | 
| Entry term(s) | Hospitalizations | 
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