Betegenként

Betegenként is a Hungarian adverb meaning per patient or for each patient. It is used in formal language such as statistics, budgeting, policy documents, and clinical research to indicate that a quantity is calculated on an individual patient basis rather than for a population as a whole.

Etymology and forms: The word is formed from beteg (ill person, patient) plus the suffix -enként, which expresses per unit. The related adjective betegenkénti can modify nouns, for example betegenkénti költség (cost per patient) or betegenkénti adat (per-patient data).

Usage notes and examples: In healthcare statistics the term helps describe per-patient metrics and allocations. Examples include: betegenkénti cost of care rose in the second quarter, and the study used betegenkénti data to compute the average length of stay per patient. It is more common in written reports and administrative language than in casual speech. It can contrast with per-disease (betegségenként) or per-episode metrics, depending on the analytic framework.

See also: In Hungarian, other per-unit constructions exist such as -enként, beteg, and betegségek. The term is primarily encountered in technical or policy-oriented texts and is typically translated to English as “per patient” or “per-patient” when rendered in bilingual documentation.