<h1><a name="Managing_hospital_stays"></a> Managing hospital stays </h1>
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Eventually patients may have to be admitted to hospital for extension of care. GNUmed allows for documenting such events.
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Each hospital stay can be associated with an episode (as the "primary reason for admission"), the admission and discharge dates, and a free-text hospital designation. Provisions have been made in the database to associate documents with hospital stays, such as discharge letters, but this is not yet supported in the client GUI.
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Procedures performed on a patient can be associated with hospital stays.
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