The phrase "a decrease in inpatient" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It can be used in contexts discussing changes in patient admissions or hospital stays, but it needs to be part of a more complete phrase.
Example: "The hospital reported a decrease in inpatient admissions over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "a reduction in inpatient" or "a decline in inpatient".
In particular, we expected an increase in outpatient care and a decrease in inpatient care.
A decrease in inpatient activities was compensated by an increase in outpatient activities, particularly significant for the Medical area.
This may have resulted in a decrease in inpatient LOS or even mortality but an increase in disease severity in the outpatient setting.
The potential reasons for a decrease in inpatient mortality include improvements in quality, efficiency of care delivery and increasing use of hospice services.
Aiken et al. [ 19] showed a relationship between a decrease in inpatient hospital deaths on surgical wards staffed by nurses with a degree.
Our findings are in contrast to the findings of studies conducted in the late 1990's, when HAART treatment led to a decrease in inpatient HIV/AIDS charges [ 2, 19, 20].
We observed an increase in MRSA among S. aureus in outpatients (+0.044% per quarter) and a decrease in inpatients (-0.13% per quarter).
The Tennessee Court of Appeals opinion that shifted financial responsibility for the direct costs of juvenile court ordered psychiatric evaluations for youth with a felony level offense in Tennessee from the State to the County was associated with a significant decrease in inpatient juvenile court ordered psychiatric evaluations and a more modest increase in outpatient evaluations.
The annual savings associated with each supportive-housing unit included an $8,260 reduction in state psychiatric hospital costs, a $3,779 reduction in costs to the city shelters, a $1,771 reduction in costs to the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, and a $3,787 decrease in inpatient Medicaid costs.
In a US cohort of 1,284 diabetes patients who underwent cardiac surgery, preadmission metformin use was associated with a more than 50% decreased postoperative morbidity rate, including infections, and with a substantial decrease in inpatient mortality [ 13].
This decrease was mainly attributable to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), which enabled many HIV/AIDS patients to be treated on an outpatient basis, leading to an overall decrease in inpatient length of stay (LOS) and inpatient HIV/AIDS charges per person [ 9, 10].
