hospitalization
Example Sentences
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"We also believe that vaccines don't just prevent acute hospitalization after contracting the virus. They may also reduce the long-term fallout of severe infection, including the kind of immune scarring that can increase cancer risk."
From Science Daily
What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles, what is the new incidence of hospitalization?
From Los Angeles Times
It might be that being self-employed is not the best option for your boyfriend if he needs hospitalization every year for weeks at a time.
From MarketWatch
Its vaccine was 27% more effective at preventing symptomatic cases of flu and 49% more effective against hospitalization than the standard flu vaccine.
A more likely explanation is that plans do a better job of ensuring conditions are diagnosed and treated, thereby reducing unnecessary spending and hospitalizations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.