hospital

Also known as medical centre, hospital facility, medical facility

thumb|The exterior of Bellvitge University Hospital in [[L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, with entrance and parking area for ambulances.|upright=1.12]]

OverviewAI-generated

A hospital is a subject associated with the Unicode character 🏥. It is categorized under the Commons gallery and category titled "Hospitals". The term is used in queries within PubMed, which contains 8,489,256 entries related to the word.

The concept is referenced by 9,696 other encyclopedia articles. It corresponds to equivalent classes in DBpedia, Schema.org, and other ontologies. In OpenStreetMap, it is tagged as amenity=hospital or healthcare=hospital. It also has a Merchant Category Code of 8062 and an NCI Thesaurus ID of C16696.

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Research

8,489,256 papers

Hospital admissions among people with diabetes: A systematic review.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2024Feleke BE, Sacre J, Tomic D et al.DOI: 10.1111/dme.15236
Hospital-acquired pressure injury: our seven years of experience.Journal of wound care · 2024Oztas P, Demirci EK, Aksakal FNB et al.DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2024.33.Sup4.S14
Hospital Inpatient Falls across Clinical Departments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Mikos M, Banas T, Czerw A et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18158167
[Appropriation of thought, space and subjectivity for hospital care].ReviewSoins; la revue de reference infirmiere · 2024Periano CDOI: 10.1016/j.soin.2024.09.018
Hospital-associated disability due to avoidable hospitalizations among older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Skains RM, Zhang Y, Osborne JD et al.DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18238
Community- vs. hospital-based management of multidrug-resistant TB in Pakistan.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2022Fatima R, Yaqoob A, Qadeer E et al.DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0695
Pediatric Hospital Utilization During Medical Stabilization for Patients With Eating Disorders.Hospital pediatrics · 2024Milliren CE, Crowley M, Zhang RS et al.DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2024-007874
High-frequency hospital users: The tail that wags the readmissions dog.Health services research · 2022Fouayzi H, Ash ASDOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13677

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Encyclopedic overview

24 sections

Contents

Etymology
{{anchor|Types}}Types
General and acute care{{anchor|General hospital|General}}
District
Specialized
Teaching
Clinics
Departments or wards
Remote monitoring
History
Early examples
Middle Ages
Early modern and Enlightenment Europe
19th century
20th century and beyond
Funding
Quality and safety
Architecture
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
History of hospitals
External links

thumb|The exterior of Bellvitge University Hospital in [[L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, with entrance and parking area for ambulances.|upright=1.12]]

A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hospital” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.