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Patientenliegezeit

English translation: patient's hospital stay

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German term or phrase:Patientenliegezeit
English translation:patient's hospital stay
Entered by: Lingua.Franca

09:19 Dec 5, 2008
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical: Health Care
German term or phrase: Patientenliegezeit
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Kontext: "Bei ähnlichen OP-Kosten zu vergleichbaren Eingriffsmethoden wird erwartet, dass sich die Patientenliegezeiten weiter verkürzen und die Krankenhausausgaben wegen des verminderten Risikos für postoperative Wundinfektionen und Hernienbildung reduzieren."
Jan Lohfert
Germany
Local time: 05:27
patient's hospital stay
Explanation:
Shorter hospital stay of patients.

You can play around with how you structure the sentence in this case.
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Lingua.Franca
Spain
Local time: 05:27
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6patient's hospital stay
Lingua.Franca
4 +1hospital bed time
David Moore (X)
3patient immobilization time
casper (X)
3post-op downtime
Cilian O'Tuama
2Patient bed time
Barbara Wiebking


  

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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
Patient bed time


Explanation:
Nicht bedtime! :-)

Example sentence(s):
  • It will make the infusion process safer, improve patient recovery time, ultimately reduce patient bed time and help patient flow through hospitals, which is a contentious issue at present.
  • PDT is expected to decrease the number of infections and therefore the patient bed time recovering from operations.

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Barbara Wiebking
Germany
Local time: 05:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
hospital bed time


Explanation:
I'd offer this, as it cannot be "at home"!

Intravenous enzyme replacement therapy: better in home or hospital?
treatment means less use of hospital bed time and better use of. staff and other physical resources. The possible risk of home therapy is that if a ...
www.internurse.com/cgi-bin/go.pl/library/article.cgi?uid=20...

David Moore (X)
Local time: 05:27
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 45

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dr. Anja Masselli
3 hrs
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
patient's hospital stay


Explanation:
Shorter hospital stay of patients.

You can play around with how you structure the sentence in this case.


    Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3636697?dopt=Abstract
Lingua.Franca
Spain
Local time: 05:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Inge Meinzer
2 hrs
neutral  casper (X): Wouldn't that be Krankenhausliegezeit, Tamas?
2 hrs
agree  Dr. Anja Masselli
3 hrs
agree  Gisela Greenlee: yes, they are only concerned with the time spent in the hospital, not time in bed at home.
3 hrs
agree  PPaulus: Or just "hospital stay" without patients...
4 hrs
agree  Sibylle Gray: Exactly what 'Patientenliegezeit' means.
4 hrs
agree  Dr.G.MD (X)
5 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
patient immobilization time


Explanation:
***Patient immobilization time*** is short; hence complications resulting from prolonged bed rest, e.g. pulmonary emboli are eliminated.
http://www.bhj.org/journal/2003_4502_april/brachytherapy_276...



Additionally, reduction of ***patient immobilization time*** after the procedure may lead to a reduction of the hospitalization period and in some cases may even remove the need for for hospitalization.
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The ***patient immobilization time*** is much shorter,. thereby decreasing complications resulting from prolonged bed rest. ...
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Reducing ***patient immobilization time*** could allow a better recovery rate. Because sacral insufficiency fractures are usually stable and do not require ...
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casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 53
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
post-op downtime


Explanation:
to me the context suggests it's the time the patient is confined to bed AFTER an operation

There's probably a better word than "downtime", but I think you need to insert "post-op" there somewhere






Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 05:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 69
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