Patients admitted electively, during the day, as part of a planned series of regular admissions for an on-going regime of broadly similar treatment and who is discharged the same day. If the intention is not fulfilled and one of these admissions should involve an overnight stay, such an admission should be classed as an ordinary (inpatient) admission. The series of regular admissions ends when the patient no longer requires frequent admissions.
Intermittent dialysis cases and patients on regular chemotherapy/radiotherapy are examples of regular day admissions.