Being 'admitted' to the hospital? [closed]

Solution 1:

Hospitalization is more often used to record or count times people are hospitalized.

How many hospitalizations were uninsured last year?

It could be used to describe ones own hospital stay, but is infrequent.

I had three hospitalizations in a two month span.

More frequently, one would say

I was hospitalized three times in two months.

Hospitalize (and its past tense, hospitalized) is commonly used both to describe ones own hospital stay as well as those of others

I was hospitalized for asthma last year.
We had to hospitalize him after a fall.

The verb to admit is also regularly used both describing oneself and others.

I was admitted to the hospital.
They admitted him to the hospital for a broken leg.

Entry into a hospital is usually called an admission. Departure from a hospital is usually called a discharge. Both noun and verb forms are used.

I was admitted to the hospital.
It's an emergency; admit the patient now.
There were several admissions to the hospital today for flu.
She was discharged immediately after the operation.
I will discharge the patient when his fever goes down.
Her discharge was followed by a readmission for infection.

NOTE: The use of the article the before hospital follows US custom in this answer.

Solution 2:

You could say "hospitalizes/hospitalization" or "I'm being admitted to hospital" (NOT "at the").

For statistics, if you are referring only to patients, then they could be classed as "outpatient visits" ("outpatients" are patients who got to hospital for an appointment but do not take up a bed, i.e. they go in, see the doctor/nurse, and leave to go home again after their appointment.)

Patients are "admitted" to hospital overnight - "patient admissions". When they are well enough to go home they are "discharged". "Patient discharges" seems to be the appropriate term, but could suggest something else!

See http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/180