Outpatient Definition

outpāshənt
noun
A patient who is treated at a hospital, clinic, etc. but is not lodged there as an inpatient.
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adjective
Of or serving outpatients.
Webster's New World
(medicine) Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient.
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Other Word Forms of Outpatient

Noun

Singular:
outpatient
Plural:
outpatients

Outpatient Sentence Examples

  • Outpatient care involves the patient coming to the center for individual and group counseling, from three to five times a week, depending on the level of care needed.

  • The setting was in a rheumatology outpatient clinic in a large teaching hospital in the center of Bristol.

  • Specialist gynecology clinics and routine gynecology outpatient clinics are held within the unit.

  • If there is no evidence of the foreskin becoming retractile, the child should be referred for an outpatient opinion.

  • The department are also able to offer an outpatient cardiac pacemaker follow up service.

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Words Ending With

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