Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Previous admission.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Engin.) Lit., previous admission

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  • adjective Prior to admission (to a hospital, university, etc.).

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ admission

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Examples

  • Yes, I lied as I filled out the preadmission paperwork, there was someone coming to pick me up afterward.

    A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

  • Yes, I lied as I filled out the preadmission paperwork, there was someone coming to pick me up afterward.

    A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

  • Because they can optimally integrate the entire process--from preadmission preparation to the surgery process to rehabilitation to discharge--value-adding process hospitals can do their work at substantially reduced cost, with much higher levels of quality.

    Disrupting The Hospital Business Model Clayton M. Christensen 2009

  • CMS is also proposing to continue to pay for preadmission related services for intravenous infusion of immunoglobulin [IVIG] under a temporary HCPS code, G0332.

    9.9% Cut in Medicare Payments Proposed 2007

  • He punched in the admissions department at the hospital where they'd done preadmission work, but she hadn't been admitted.

    Ryan Winston, Anne Marie 2002

  • At its narrowest, the case only applies to the relatively uncommon Florida statutory scheme which specifically requires informed consent for voluntary admissions, and only deals with the use of preadmission safeguards to insure that the patient is capable of giving that consent.

    Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

  • Unknown to her daughter Heather, she had created an advance directive a year earlier as part of the hospital preadmission process for a minor ankle surgery.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • Unknown to her daughter Heather, she had created an advance directive a year earlier as part of the hospital preadmission process for a minor ankle surgery.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • Unknown to her daughter Heather, she had created an advance directive a year earlier as part of the hospital preadmission process for a minor ankle surgery.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • Unknown to her daughter Heather, she had created an advance directive a year earlier as part of the hospital preadmission process for a minor ankle surgery.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

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