Outpatient

Word OUTPATIENT
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Definitions and meanings of "Outpatient"

What do we mean by outpatient?

A patient whose treatment does not require an overnight stay in a hospital or clinic. noun

Of or relating to outpatients or their care. adjective

Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient. adjective

A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care. noun

A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.

Fancy euphemism for a Bar. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Outpatient

The word "outpatient" in example sentences

I found the doctor that was able to literally remove her golf ball sized tumor on her face, in outpatient surgery when she was only 14 months old. ❋ Hyleri Katzenberg (2010)

The fellow participates in outpatient clinics in hematology and oncology one day or two half days a week. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After your child completes the program, our team will see him in outpatient clinic to insure that his progress continues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Patients) who received court orders for AOT appeared to experience a number of improved outcomes: reduced hospitalization and length of stay, increased receipt of psychotripic medication and intensive case management services, and greater engagement in outpatient services. ❋ DJ Jaffe (2010)

Urine lead (UPb) in outpatient treatment of lead poisoning with dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the second year, the fellow spends one day a week in outpatient continuity clinic and laboratory researchers have an option to reduce this to every other week in year three. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fellow will participate in outpatient pain clinic evaluations and follow-up treatment and will have some additional opportunities for consultation and short-term treatment for patients with acute, inpatient pain issues. ❋ Unknown (2010)

State officials were less encumbered when Cho was under orders to obtain outpatient mental health treatment because he had been deemed a danger to himself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hospitals are bleeding money each month “because they have to pay more for temporary personnel and care for uninsured people who otherwise would have gone to Charity Hospital.” Hospital inpatient stays have become longer as there is no long term outpatient care or home care in New Orleans at present. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Effect of a short-term outpatient psychotherapy benefit on the utilization of medical services in a prepaid group practice medical program. ❋ RICHARD A. WELLS (1994)

A 2006 report by the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers stated that with appropriate short-term outpatient treatment, juvenile sex offenders are at no greater risk to commit another sex offense than any other child receiving mental health assistance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But San Francisco does not have an assisted outpatient program, which would allow court-ordered, intensive long-term outpatient treatment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then look at the record of the prenatal clinic of your own Toronto General Hospital, with one of the lowest death rates achieved in outpatient work anywhere; examine the creditable achievements of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada, in reducing maternal deaths in the homes they serve; check the incredibly fine records of the Outpost Hospitals of the Red Cross in maternal service, or examine results such as your own Department of Health has obtained in reducing infant deaths and you have the other aspect of the challenge - knowledge of the ways to save life, and protect health if only we have the skill to plan, and the means to serve. ❋ Unknown (1936)

Short-term outpatient rehab (60 visits per calendar year) $10 ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, the Defense Department has cobbled together a hodgepodge of day clinic surgeries at places such as Fort Meade with four operating rooms classified as outpatient only with no intensive care unit and Malcolm Grow Hospital with six operating rooms classified as outpatient only with no intensive care unit. ❋ Hal Donahue (2010)

The other, known as the outpatient file, tracks claims made by hospitals for outpatient treatment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You mentioned the effectiveness of treatment by meds in thirds, but in recent years, electroshock therapy has become more and more accepted, as a long-term outpatient solution, to drug-resistant depression and has saved many lives, as repulsive as it sounds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Routine visits to the emergency room are typically classified as outpatient care. ❋ Douglas L. Anderton (1997)

[Bars] are unsupervised outpatient stress-reduction clinics that [serve] cheap over-the-counter medications with lots of [side effects]. ❋ Two Basket Skinner (2011)

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