What's the difference between readmission and readmittance?
Readmission
Definition:
(n.) The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
(2) Men in a halfway-house sample had more detoxication readmissions but fewer drunkenness arrests in a 3-month follow-up period than did their matched controls; the total number of documented drunkenness episodes did not differ in the two groups.
(3) The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police.
(4) The 327 readmissions, including 42 patients who were readmitted more than once during the study period, accounted for 12% of medical admissions.
(5) Individuals at rehabilitation hospitals perceived a greater increase in complication and readmission rate and acute illness, whereas individuals at rehabilitation units perceived a greater increase in referrals.
(6) Readmission rates for individual medical and surgical conditions were not significantly changed.
(7) Recurrent heart failure was the most common cause for readmission, occurring in 38 patients (57%).
(8) At 1-year follow-up 62 patients were still in the community without any readmissions.
(9) The presence of functional debilitation or dementia was associated with a lower likelihood of non-elective readmission compared with the absence of these conditions.
(10) Hospital-based follow-up can miss important events; we found the relative percentage of short-term readmissions to hospitals other than the hospital of surgery startling.
(11) In addition to reduction of mortality and reinfarction rate, benefits have clearly been demonstrated on severity of chest pain, arrhythmias, and other thromboatherosclerotic complications, as well as on readmissions.
(12) Results indicated that patients tended to give internal attributions for their readmission and believed that the cause was not under their control.
(13) An association between hospital occupancy rate, the time of discharge from the index admission and readmission to the hospital, hospital length of stay, sex, race, or diagnostic category was not found.
(14) Seventeen percent had required hospital readmission.
(15) Compared to the group of patients not selecting an IUD as contraception, there was no increase in readmission frequency due to immediate postabortal IUD insertion.
(16) Comparison of patients discharged before and after closure showed no significant differences in patients' age, sex, proportion living alone, length of stay in hospital, readmissions or deaths within one month of discharge.
(17) The relapse and readmission rates of schizophrenic patients who participated in a controlled trial of a nine-month behavioural family intervention trial based on the EE status of their relatives are presented at two years.
(18) First, highly-structured explicit criteria, based on patient outcomes such as mortality, readmissions, or unusually long lengths of hospital stay, might help identify adverse events using routinely-collected discharge data.
(19) Nine patients have required readmissions for abdominal pain and four have required further surgery for symptoms of small bowel obstruction.
(20) The EU-Turkey agreement works on the assumption of relocations, readmissions and resettlement working simultaneously.
Readmittance
Definition:
(n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
Example Sentences:
(1) GM-CSF has been shown to decrease the duration of hospital stay from 18.7 to 9.6 days and to decrease the need for readmittance to the hospital for cytopenic fever.
(2) Third, after prolonged potassium depletion, the ouabain-insensitive loss of cell water and sodium that follows the readmittance of potassium was increased.
(3) Readmittance of K+ to the bathing solution resulted in rapid reversal of elevated prostaglandin E release rates.
(4) Readmittance of drug-free Tyrode's solution reversed these changes induced by 13.3 micron of phentolamine and all conconcentrations of alprenolol almost completely but those induced by higher concentrations of phentolamine and all concentrations of prenylamine only slightly.
(5) This surge leaves ITV well positioned to make a return to the FTSE 100, which meets next Wednesday for its quarterly review of which stocks to admit or drop, with automatic readmittance for any company ranked 90th or higher by market value.