OUTPATIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outpatient mean? 

• OUTPATIENT (noun)
  The noun OUTPATIENT has 1 sense:

1. a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated

  Familiarity information: OUTPATIENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTPATIENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("outpatient" is a kind of...):

patient (a person who requires medical care)

Antonym:

inpatient (a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated)

 Context examples 

A surgical procedure performed on an outpatient basis.

(Ambulatory Surgical Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

They include hospitals, clinics, outpatient care centers, and specialized care centers, such as birthing centers and psychiatric care centers.

(Health Facilities, NIH)

They found that 9.7% of outpatients had lower free fatty acid levels, indicating they probably did not fast, compared to only 1.6% of inpatients.

(Researchers identify method to verify if children fasted before medical testing, National Institutes of Health)

Others are in nursing homes, doctors' offices, dentists' offices, outpatient clinics and laboratories.

(Health Occupations, Bureau of Labor Statistics)

This treatment, performed in an outpatient setting by an interventional radiologist, can safely relieve a child's migraine quickly, said Robin Kaye, MD, section chief of interventional radiology in the department of medical imaging at Phoenix Children's Hospital and a co-author of the study.

(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A publicly or privately owned institution which is primarily established and licensed for the purpose of providing elective surgical treatment of outpatients whose recovery, under normal and routine circumstances, will not require inpatient care.

(Ambulatory Surgical Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

They compared free fatty acid test results of children who were admitted as inpatients—and whose food intakes were controlled by hospital staff—to those of children who participated as outpatients.

(Researchers identify method to verify if children fasted before medical testing, National Institutes of Health)