What's the difference between infirmary and institution?

Infirmary


Definition:

  • (n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty-six patients with nasolabial cysts were treated at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1969 to 1986.
  • (2) Figures for the Royal Infirmary, Perth, the main referral hospital for the county, are also given for comparison.
  • (3) Investigations are under way at 13 hospital trusts – including Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville and Leeds General Infirmary – but Jeremy Hunt said new inquiries could be launched after the Metropolitan police found "further relevant information" about Savile.
  • (4) A series of 155 patients who underwent nephrectomy for renal carcinoma between 1965 and 1985 at Manchester Royal Infirmary were analysed for survival in relationship to presenting features, surgical staging and histopathology.
  • (5) The implementation of resource management at the Radcliffe Infirmary made clinical managers responsible for their ward budgets.
  • (6) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
  • (7) All 197 patients admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary during the 16 year period 1970-1985, and diagnosed as having Dukes' A colorectal cancers, were studied.
  • (8) A clinico-pathological review of 520 patients with hepatic cirrhosis coming to necropsy at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow over the period 1900-69 is reported.
  • (9) We encountered three such lesions over 2 years in the Massachusetts Eye Ear Infirmary, and another was retrieved from the recent files.
  • (10) Simon Bailey, professor of paediatric neuro-oncology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, said: "To make real progress in treatment there needs to be urgent, significant funding.
  • (11) Looking back through old copies of 'NATNews' of twenty years ago we found an article by W. D. Mackennan, then Consultant Dental Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
  • (12) Knowledge of HIV and knowledge of, attitudes to and use of the condom were assessed by a survey of a sample of 778 heterosexual patients attending the genito-urinary medicine clinic at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
  • (13) Data was collected prospectively on all patients from one health district attending the Hand Unit at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary to determine the needs for hand surgery and the resources utilised to meet them.
  • (14) Leicester Royal Infirmary bosses admitted the failure after Lydia Spilner was admitted in January last year with a suspected chest infection and dehydration.
  • (15) Fifteen years after a partial maxillectomy and radiation therapy for left antral carcinoma, a 53-year-old woman presented to the Eye Plastics and Orbit Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, with phthisis and a large, black corneal lesion in the left eye.
  • (16) The suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds general infirmary and the subsequent battle to restart operations is a foretaste of what will become a familiar chain of events in the NHS post Mid-Staffordshire.
  • (17) In response to a previous study of GPs' and consultants' satisfaction with orthopaedic outpatient referrals, orthopaedic surgeons at Doncaster Royal Infirmary made themselves available for telephone consultations with general practitioners (GPs) at advertised times.
  • (18) We have examined the prevalence and nature of chronic liver disease among 538 patients with functioning renal allografts managed at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, between 1980 and 1989.
  • (19) Three investigations were launched at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds general infirmary and Broadmoor hospital after details emerged about cases of alleged abuse by Savile in hospitals.
  • (20) "However, the fact that we have dealt with other cases against the same hospital in similar circumstances is of great concern and we are urging the trust to prove to the local community it serves that real improvements have since been made to elderly patient care at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Institution


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
  • (n.) Instruction; education.
  • (n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.
  • (n.) That which instituted or established
  • (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
  • (n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
  • (n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
  • (n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (3) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (5) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (6) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
  • (7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
  • (8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (9) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (10) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
  • (11) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (12) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
  • (13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (14) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
  • (15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (16) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (17) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
  • (19) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
  • (20) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.