Comorbidity
No, it is not. It is a noun (person admitted to a hospital or clinic), which can be a noun adjunct in terms such as inpatient entrance.
inpatient
The spelling "inpatient" is someone admitted to the hospital for treatment.The similar word impatient means unable to calmly wait: restless, apprehensive or anxious.
It indicated that the individual has been admitted to the Hospital for care, treatment and or observation.
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Outpatient care is performed in a clinic or hospital and does not require an overnight stay. Inpatient care requires the patient be admitted to the hospital where they are monitored 24 hours a day.
Do you mean:The noun 'inpatient', a word for someone admitted to a hospital for care; for example:Father was treated as an inpatient during his long recovery.or:The adjective 'impatient' a word used to describe a noun as lacking patience; for example:There were a lot of impatient commuters waiting on the platform.
It probably stands for inpatient, meaning the patient was admitted to the hospital either overnight or longer.
I just wanted to add that this website would not let me type this in properly. It disliked all the punctuation that I needed to add to make this correct. It should actually say: What is the inpatient (not outpatient) ICD9 code for patient admitted for low hemoglobin; discharged diagnosis is bleeding ulcer
In-patients are patients currently staying at the hospital to be treated. An out-patient can be treated at the hospital, but won't necessarily stay there and be admitted.
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It means, literally, "in", as opposed to "out". It's not so much a prefix as a portmanteau word, combining the words in + patient.