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Definition of outpatient
: a patient who is not hospitalized overnight but who visits a hospital, clinic, or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment — compare inpatient
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The treatment — called stereotactic ablative radiation therapy — was administered in an outpatient setting for a three-week period that began August 5. — Adam Edelman, NBC News, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent treatment for tumor on pancreas, Supreme Court says," 23 Aug. 2019 Other facilities in the area acquired as part of the deal will become outpatient focused. — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, "Big retail, office development begins adjacent to new University of Maryland hospital in Prince George’s," 14 Aug. 2019 Their goal is to make this so simple to implant that it can be done on an outpatient basis. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Both an evolution and a plan for radical change," 13 Aug. 2019 The hospital also employs two full-time pre-op/PACU nurses who receive both outpatients and inpatients, the latter typically staying only 30 to 120 minutes in the PACU after their procedure. — Sponsored Content With Emergency Hospital Systems, Houston Chronicle, "New Cath Lab Brings Cutting-edge Cardiac Care to Cleveland, Texas Residents," 12 Aug. 2019 And in many countries with national physician shortages, such as China where overcrowded urban hospitals’ outpatient departments may see up to 10,000 people per day, such technologies don’t need perfect accuracy to prove helpful. — Jeremy Hsu, Quartz, "Artificial intelligence could globally revolutionize health care—unless it destroys it," 2 Aug. 2019 The consortium will oversee acute, emergency, outpatient, and long-term care services formerly provided by Sitka Community Hospital. — Anchorage Daily News, "Health care group completing merger with Sitka hospital," 1 Aug. 2019 One example of the next stage of health care in malls: The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is planning a 34,000 square-foot oncology and hematology outpatient facility in the Patriot Place shopping center in Foxborough, Massachusetts. — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, "Malls are filling their empty spaces with doctor's offices," 23 July 2019 Beaumont is a nonprofit organization with eight hospitals, 145 outpatient locations, nearly 5,000 physicians and more than 38,000 employees. — Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, "Beaumont workers, union members rally at Wayne hospital for fair contract," 17 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'outpatient.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for outpatient
outpatient
noun
English Language Learners Definition of outpatient
: a person who goes to a doctor's office or hospital for treatment but who does not spend the night there
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outpatient
noun
out·pa·tient
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Medical Definition of outpatient
: a patient who is not hospitalized overnight but who visits a hospital, clinic, or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment — compare inpatient
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