verb
- to admit (a patient) to a hospital again after a previous discharge
Usage: medical
Examples
- The patient had to be rehospitalized due to complications from surgery.
- Doctors decided to rehospitalize her when her condition worsened at home.
- The elderly man was rehospitalized within a week of his initial discharge.
- Poor medication compliance often leads to the need to rehospitalize patients.
- The hospital’s goal is to reduce the rate at which they rehospitalize patients.
- Insurance companies track how often hospitals rehospitalize the same patients.