The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.

Summaries that serve as the primary documents communicating a patient's care plan to the post-hospital care team.

The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility.

A vital statistic measuring or recording the rate of death from any cause in hospitalized populations.

A common gynecologic disorder characterized by an abnormal, nonbloody discharge from the genital tract.