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outpatient | American Dictionary

outpatient
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɑʊtˌpeɪ·ʃənt/
a person who receives medical care from a hospital but who does not stay in the hospital for one or more nights:
Anna had foot surgery as an outpatient.

Examples of outpatient

outpatient
They also reported far less use of hospital services (particularly paediatric outpatients).
The average annualized number of outpatient visits was substantially higher for each disease state compared with the number of inpatient episodes.
Costs were based on frequencies of inpatient and outpatient visits, diagnostic and laboratory testing, medication, and medical procedures associated with the specific health states.
Subsequently, patients receive ongoing medical care based on regular outpatient visits, and that care may include periods of readmission to the hospital.
The cost for visits to hospitals represented the largest share of outpatient care.
This approach is straightforward when a single diagnosis is listed, as is often the case for outpatient and emergency department visits.
Three-fourths were direct costs for inpatient care, acute outpatient care, physician visits for followup treatment, drugs, and so on.
Unit costs of inpatient days and outpatient visits were directly derived from the cost-estimation model.
All patients received 60 mg oral pseudoephedrine twice daily as outpatients.
A technique for studying psychiatric morbidity in inpatient and outpatient series and in general population samples.
This value is based on three generic outpatient attendances.
Factors associated with noncompliance with psychiatric outpatient visits.
For many years, all academic activity was consolidated at the university hospitals, with their specialized wards and large outpatient departments.
The number of outpatient and rehabilitation visits, drug consumption after the acute phase, and production losses due to early retirement are taken from the literature.
We have judged the efficacy of our regime on the basis of two studies performed among our outpatients.
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Collocations withoutpatient

outpatient

These are words often used in combination with outpatient.

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on an outpatient basis
A few were aborted on an outpatientbasis and released on the day of the operation.
outpatient clinic
Subsequently, he was followed closely in the outpatientclinic.
outpatient department
Admission to the hospital is usually through the outpatientdepartment and precludes followup by the primary care physician.
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