Medical students often develop their clinical reasoning skills by writing admission notes.
The traditional, rational definition of being admitted usually involves spending an overnight in the hospital.
This definition is sometimes stretched in the U.S. medical billing industry, where hospital corporations may blur the definitions of "admission" and "observation" because of reimbursement rules under which healthcare payors pay less for the care if an "admission" was involved.
Health or cause of death for: In medicine, a social history is a portion of the admission note addressing familial, occupational, and recreational aspects of the patient's personal life that have the potential to be clinically significant.
e.g.: EKG, CXR, CT, MRI Assessment includes a discussion of the differential diagnosis and supporting history and exam findings.