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What (who) is outpatient - definition
PERSON WHO TAKES A MEDICAL TREATMENT OR IS SUBJECT OF A CASE STUDY
Inpatient; Health consumer; Outpatient; Outpatients; Inpatients; Out-patient; In-patient; Inpatient admissions; Outpatient Department; Outpatient procedure; Inpatient procedure; Discharge planning; Day patient; Patients; Daypatient; Healthcare consumer
![Patients at the Red Cross Hospital in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]] during the 1918 [[Finnish Civil War]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haavoittuneita Punaisen ristin sairaalassa Tampereella (26901645371).jpg?width=200 "Patients at the Red Cross Hospital in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]] during the 1918 [[Finnish Civil War]]")
outpatient
¦ noun a patient attending a hospital for treatment without staying overnight.
outpatient
also out-patient
(outpatients)
An outpatient is someone who receives treatment at a hospital but does not spend the night there.
...the outpatient clinic...
She received psychiatric care as an outpatient.
N-COUNT: oft N n
Patient
·vt To compose, to calm.
II. Patient ·adj Forbearing; long-suffering.
III. Patient ·adj Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
IV. Patient ·noun ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
V. Patient ·noun A person under medical or surgical treatment;
- correlative to physician or nurse.
VI. Patient ·adj Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
VII. Patient ·adj Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
VIII. Patient ·adj Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Wikipedia
Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.
Examples of use of outpatient
1. But the outpatient referral numbers were permanently engaged.
2. Traditionally, this would involve one or more hospital outpatient appointments.
3. Dohms is spending Dh25 million on the new outpatient centre.
4. But he was released with orders to undergo outpatient treatment.
5. Dozier will continue her rehabilitation on an outpatient basis.