日语

病院に閉じこめられる期間
― 今、彼らは患者の入院期間を短くしようとする

英语

a period of time when you are confined to a hospital
― now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization

_{takkur (2016-03-11 09:35:12)}

(TK 11 Mar, 2016) I'm still not sure that "入院" is adequate for this synset. while you can say "入院は短かった", it may be a contracted expression. c.f. "お風呂は短かった"