| hospital-physician joint ventures | A formal financial agreement made between one or more physicians and a hospital to provide ambulatory alternative services to those patients who do not require hospitalization. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| hospital-physician relations | Includes relationships between hospitals, their governing boards, and administrators in regard to physicians, whether or not the physicians are members of the medical staff or have medical staff privileges. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitalisation | The confinement of a patient in a hospital or the period of such confinement. (18 Nov 1997) |
| hospitalism | <medicine> A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hospitalization | The confinement of a patient in a hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitalize | <medicine> To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hospitals | Institutions with an organised medical staff which provide medical care to patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, chronic disease | Hospitals which provide care to patients with long-term illnesses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, community | Institutions with permanent facilities and organised medical staff which provide the full range of hospital services primarily to a neighborhood area. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, convalescent | Hospitals which provide care to the patient for the period following an acute illness until health is restored. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, county | Hospitals controlled by the county government. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, district | Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, federal | Hospitals controlled by agencies and departments of the u.s. Federal government. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, general | Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, group practice | Hospitals organised and controlled by a group of physicians who practice together and provide each other with mutual support. (12 Dec 1998) |