[
US
/ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃənt/
]
[ UK /aʊtpˈeɪʃənt/ ]
[ UK /aʊtpˈeɪʃənt/ ]
NOUN
- a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated
How To Use outpatient In A Sentence
- If insurance problems or other factors prevent referral, it is possible to detoxify the patient on an outpatient basis.
- He also told the meeting how there was scope to expand facilities at the hospital - both in outpatients and the range of surgery carried out.
- These biopsies usually require only local anesthesia with intravenous sedation and may be done as an outpatient procedure.
- The increase in medical costs per claim in 2007 likely was driven by factors such as utilization of nonhospital services and hospital inpatient and outpatient payments, said WCRI. FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
- This included an exhausting half hour walk from a nearby parking space to the reception area and thence to the outpatient clinic.
- It indicates waiting times for doctors and classifies them using three priority levels for patients and outpatients. Globe and Mail
- The researchers concluded that direct current electrotherapy is an effective, painless, and safe outpatient treatment approach to all grades of internal and mixed hemorrhoid disease.
- Clinical details, dates of hospital admissions, and contacts with other patients at outpatient clinics were also recorded.
- In a previous study we have shown that local anesthesia can be used as the standard anesthetic for outpatient knee arthroscopy.
- The other large group of patients seen in an outpatient setting with headache and fever are those with a viral influenza syndrome.