What's the difference between admission and admittance?

Admission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of admitting.
  • (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
  • (n.) The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
  • (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
  • (n.) A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
  • (n.) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
  • (2) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (3) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (4) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
  • (5) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
  • (6) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
  • (7) The incidence was 0.31 per 1000 gynaecological admissions and the peak age incidence was in the age group 26 to 35 years.
  • (8) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (9) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (10) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
  • (11) It is concluded that based on readily available clinical criteria at the time of admission, a subgroup of patients at low risk for developing life-threatening complications requiring coronary care unit interventions can be identified and admitted directly to an intermediate-care unit.
  • (12) Functional status on admission measured by the Katz ADL was the most powerful predictor of functional status at discharge.
  • (13) During that period 1866 neonates were transferred from maternities of Strasbourg and its region to the neonatology unit, representing 23.77% of total admissions.
  • (14) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
  • (15) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
  • (16) The alveolar-arterial oxygen difference was greater than 150 mmHg (20 kPa) in nine subjects on admission.
  • (17) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
  • (18) The Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) were recorded at the time of admission for all patients.
  • (19) Adverse drug reactions (ADR) were the primary cause of admission in 49 patients (11.5%), and 16 patients (3.8%) were admitted due to drug non-compliance (DNC).
  • (20) Three patients died shortly after admission due to pulmonary complications.

Admittance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of admitting.
  • (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
  • (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
  • (n.) Admissibility.
  • (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
  • (2) The dominating reason for admittance is heart disease.
  • (3) None of the patients was suspected of having abdominal typhus at the time of admittance.
  • (4) Measurements were made of the time course and amplitude of the change in real part of admittance, DeltaG, of a suspension of frog rod outer segments, following a flash of light bleaching about 1% of the rhodopsin content of the rods.
  • (5) After emergency admittance to hospital the ECG showed 3 degrees A-V block, requiring temporary pacemaker insertion.
  • (6) In our environment, there is a high percentage of admittances despite the fact that a positive outcome is reached in virtually all cases: only 1 exitus out of 103 cases.
  • (7) On admittance to the hospital, hyperpigmentation was also present.
  • (8) Six patients were in coma on admittance, 1 was confused, and 4 were conscious.
  • (9) They showed remarkable differences concerning the diagnosis of admittance, age and other factors related to the risk of infection.
  • (10) The blood samples were taken upon the patients admittance to the hospital and repeated every 6 hours until the 24th hour after admittance.
  • (11) The short term evolution suggests that the acute process can be prolonged for more than 1 month after hospital admittance, and the altered auditory function tends to persist over the mid term.
  • (12) Within this limit the spectral intensities of current and voltage noise are given by the frequency-dependent admittance, which in turn is closely linked to the relaxation-time spectrum of the transport system.
  • (13) Most of the respondents who do not gain admittance to medical school on reapplications still aspire to doctoral-level degrees, but only half remain in the health area.
  • (14) Patients were clinically examined before admittance to the study and at 1, 2, 3 and 6 months after treatment initiation (one capsule daily for a period of 10 days per month during 3 consecutive months).
  • (15) The results obtained from this investigation don't show significant differences between the suppressors and nonsuppressors based on any of the following variables: weight loss, age, duration of the illness, weight at admittance, percentage of ideal weight and cortisol and ACTH baseline levels.
  • (16) A computer corrected for the ear-canal volume utilizing measurements made at ear-canal pressures of 0 and --350 daPa and then converted the conductance and susceptance values into admittance and impedance units.
  • (17) The present study was undertaken for the purpose of studying the clinical validity of static admittance values in 42 confirmed otosclerotic ears.
  • (18) Observation of the conductance component of admittance consistently required higher intensity levels to elicit the acoustic reflex.
  • (19) An admittance function was defined as the percentage of the rays reaching the rhabdom with respect to those entering the ommatidium.
  • (20) We’ll continue to make our views on these issues known to leaders in Washington and elsewhere.” As well as halting Syrian arrivals indefinitely, the president’s order suspends the admittance of all refugees to the US for 120 days.