noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outpatient clinic (=for someone who does not need to stay in hospital)
▪ There's an outpatient clinic for people with diabetes.
inpatient/outpatient care (=for people in hospital/not in hospital)
▪ Outpatient care is generally less expensive than a stay in hospital.
the outpatient/casualty etc department (=in a hospital)
▪ I had to go to the physiotherapy department for treatment twice a week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
basis
▪ The procedure was on an outpatient basis without administration of analgesic or sedative medication.
▪ Covert sensitization requires no special equipment, involves minimal risk to patients, and can easily be conducted on an outpatient basis.
▪ The procedure was carried out on an outpatient basis without analgesics or sedatives.
▪ Medicare also would reduce co-payments for services received at hospitals and clinics on an outpatient basis.
▪ If you are doing covert sensitization on an outpatient basis, your client could be consuming alcohol prior to treatment.
care
▪ It should be possible to compare the cost effectiveness of community based clinics with that of hospital outpatient care.
▪ Part B Medicare covers doctor visits and other outpatient care.
▪ For many patients, brief problem-orientated outpatient care seems to be a very satisfactory means of helping them tackle the difficulties.
clinic
▪ An obvious candidate for inclusion in these tables is the delay between referral and first appointment in outpatient clinics.
▪ It is these patients who present themselves to the outpatient clinic.
▪ Instead of the 170-bed hospital at Travis, they proposed building a $ 27 million outpatient clinic, a project Riggs defended.
▪ Eleven patients were recruited from our outpatient clinic and informed consent was obtained.
▪ Plans for the outpatient clinic have been scrapped.
▪ Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.
▪ The plan would set up a new payment system for services to Medicare patients who see their doctors at hospital outpatient clinics.
department
▪ Health centres with a low throughput may have higher average costs than a busy hospital outpatient department.
▪ Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department.
▪ Therefore all hospital outpatient departments contain staff who are skilled in treating injuries.
▪ It will mean patients get quicker treatment and reduce pressures on hospital outpatient departments.
▪ The patients are followed up partly at the outpatient department, partly at local hospitals.
hospital
▪ It should be possible to compare the cost effectiveness of community based clinics with that of hospital outpatient care.
▪ The plan would set up a new payment system for services to Medicare patients who see their doctors at hospital outpatient clinics.
▪ Health centres with a low throughput may have higher average costs than a busy hospital outpatient department.
▪ Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.
▪ Therefore all hospital outpatient departments contain staff who are skilled in treating injuries.
▪ It will mean patients get quicker treatment and reduce pressures on hospital outpatient departments.
▪ Those patients attending general practice alone showed better control when compared with those having shared care with a hospital outpatient clinic.
service
▪ San Diego-based Medical Imaging provides outpatient services and medical equipment to doctors and hospitals.
▪ The companies began limiting inpatient stays, putting more emphasis on outpatient services.
▪ For outpatient services, the wait is no more than a couple of days.
treatment
▪ But unsuccessful outpatient treatment can significantly increase the risk that the patient will become invalided at home.
▪ By the end of the stories, however, the need for insurance coverage for outpatient treatment was deemed paramount.
▪ In addition, there is room in outpatient treatment programs.
▪ The Federation found the reason for postponing outpatient treatment centers until some future date unclear.
■ VERB
attend
▪ After discharge, patients should attend weekly outpatient appointments, moving to fortnightly or monthly attendances as appropriate.
▪ Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.
▪ Sixty-two consecutive patients aged 75 or over and attending a general ophthalmology outpatients clinic were assessed.
see
▪ Such patients are uncommon in general practice; they are more likely to be seen in psychiatric outpatient clinics.
▪ The more important causes seen in an outpatient practice are discussed below.
▪ These individuals are usually stuporous or comatose and will not be seen in an outpatient practice.
▪ Congenital nystagmus starts soon after birth and is occasionally seen in an outpatient setting.
▪ The other large group of patients seen in an outpatient setting with headache and fever are those with a viral influenza syndrome.
▪ It is only occasionally seen in an outpatient clinic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An obvious candidate for inclusion in these tables is the delay between referral and first appointment in outpatient clinics.
▪ Compliance was monitored by questioning patients and counting remaining capsules at each outpatient visit.
▪ Even some outpatient programs are threatened by the changes in the industry.
▪ Instead of the 170-bed hospital at Travis, they proposed building a $ 27 million outpatient clinic, a project Riggs defended.
▪ That said, there are opportunities to reduce outpatient waiting times.
▪ The latest is an outpatient procedure with a new gizmo that removes throat tissues with radio frequencies.
▪ The tiny device is surgically implanted in an outpatient procedure within the eye, just outside the field of vision.
▪ This paper is concerned with the effects of the reforms on general practitioners' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics.