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voluntary admission

noun

B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Admission to a psychiatric unit that the patient agrees to and can leave of their own accord.

She accepted a voluntary admission to the acute ward while her medication was reviewed.

Similar: informal admission

Topic: Advanced English in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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