Key words for hospital admission and discharge in Italian

Here are some key words for hospital admission and discharge in Italian with translations:

• Admission: ammissione, ricovero
• Discharge: dimissione
• Patient: paziente
• Emergency room: pronto soccorso
• Admission form: modulo di ammissione
• Discharge summary: referto di dimissione
• Medical history: anamnesi
• Observation: osservazione
• Length of stay: durerata del ricovero
• Transfer: trasferimento
• Readmission: riammissione

These terms are commonly used in Italian hospitals for admission and discharge processes and documentation. ^{1, 6, 7}

References

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• The First Two Years of COVID-19 Hospitalization Characteristics and Costs: Results from the National Discharge Registry

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• Inter-Regional Hospital Patients’ Mobility in Italy

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• The crucial factor of hospital readmissions: a retrospective cohort study of patients evaluated in the emergency department and admitted to the department of medicine of a general hospital in Italy

• Mental health services in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak

• Discharge Summary Hospital Course Summarisation of In Patient Electronic Health Record Text with Clinical Concept Guided Deep Pre-Trained Transformer Models