11.   Patients were admitted to an epilepsy unit for assessment, where scalp electroencephalogram and audiovisual behaviour were continually monitored during at least three typical seizures.

12.   Previously patients were admitted to whichever ward had free beds.

13.   Patients are admitted regularly -- every two or three weeks -- for treatment.

14.   Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted.

15.   Another factor is the declining number of routine inpatient hospital beds, making it more difficult for emergency room doctors to get all but their most urgent patients admitted.

16.   At many hospitals, patients were being admitted in unusually large numbers.

17.   At MEDecision in Philadelphia, Forte was used to create software that lets insurance companies and doctors decide whether patients should be admitted to hospitals.

18.   A patient was admitted to the hospital and, on the day of surgery, given general anesthesia.