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  2. Outpatient surgery - Wikipedia

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    Outpatient surgery, also known as ambulatory surgery, day surgery, [1] day case surgery, or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. [note 1] The term “outpatient” arises from the fact that surgery patients may enter and leave the facility on the same day. The advantages of outpatient surgery over ...

  3. Bed rest - Wikipedia

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    Bed rest, also referred to as the rest-cure, is a medical treatment in which a person lies in bed for most of the time to try to cure an illness. [1] Bed rest refers to voluntarily lying in bed as a treatment and not being confined to bed because of a health impairment which physically prevents leaving bed.

  4. On-call room - Wikipedia

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    ] A similar change in hospital working hours for interns was implemented in the United States in 2011, but senior residents continue to do 24-hour call. [2] Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education regulations require that residents on call be provided with "adequate sleep facilities" which are "safe, quiet, and private."

  5. Struggling to heal: The stories of five North Carolinians ...

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    The problems persisted, so she returned to the hospital, where she was kept overnight for more tests. Uninsured and too sick to work full time, Montanez had less than $10,000 in annual income and ...

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  7. Hits 'keep coming': Hospitals struggle as COVID beds fill - AOL

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    Hospitals across the country are struggling to cope with burnout among doctors, nurses and other workers, already buffeted by a crush of patients from the ongoing surge of the COVID-19 delta ...

  8. Lying-in - Wikipedia

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    When lying-in was a more common term, it was used in the names of several maternity hospitals, for example the General Lying-In Hospital in London. Until the 1970s, standard NHS postpartum care involved 10 days in hospital, with the newborns taken to the nursery overnight, ensuring the mothers were well rested by the time they returned home. [5]

  9. Involuntary commitment - Wikipedia

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    The creation of this hospital, as of many others, was largely the work of Dorothea Lynde Dix, whose philanthropic efforts extended over many states, and in Europe as far as Constantinople. Many state hospitals in the United States were built in the 1850s and 1860s on the Kirkbride Plan, an architectural style meant to have curative effect. [28]