Usually means: Patients occupy beds needed elsewhere.
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  1. bed-blocking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. bed-blocking, bed-blocking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bed-blocking: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. bed blocking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  5. bed blocking: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  The act or incidence of a bed blocker.

Similar:
blocking, bedmaking, blacklisting, blanketing, stalling, bed bath, locking, bedevilling, warding, ashlaring, more...

Opposite:
discharge planning, timely discharge, efficient discharge

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Similar:
blocking, bedmaking, blacklisting, blanketing, stalling, bed bath, locking, bedevilling, warding, ashlaring, more...

Opposite:
discharge planning, timely discharge, efficient discharge



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