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Patient

A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.

Outpatients and inpatients, Alternative terminology & Etymology

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Etymology

Outpatients and inpatients

Day patient

Alternative terminology

Patient-centered healthcare

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Patient

Nodes71
Edges70
Triples65
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028169
Components1

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Patient

Top relations

related to External links · 21
Patient → Archived, Be Googlers, BMJ, British Medical Journal's, DK, Enkin MW, February, Googler, How, Jadad AR, June, Mary Shomons, Patients Need, PMC, PMID, Rizo CA, Scott Haig Proves, Time Magazine, Time Magazine's Dr, Wayback Machine
related to Outpatients and inpatients · 11
Patient → An, Assess, Discharge, English National Health Service, Even, In, More, Outpatient, Sometimes, The, Treatment
related to Patient-centered healthcare · 8
Patient → Incidents, Investigations, It, Stafford Hospital, The, Veterans Health Administration, When, Winterbourne View
related to Alternative terminology · 6
Patient → Because, However, In, Individuals, Other, These
related to Etymology · 5
Patient → Greek, Latin, The, This, This English
see also · 4
Patient → Bill, Casualtye-PatientMature, RightsRadiological, UK
related to Day patient · 2
Patient → However, The
is a · 1
Patient → Googler

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Important terminology

patients health care healthcare services hospital used surgery treatment outpatient time sometimes good bmj day stay called inpatient may medical

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Patientis aGoogler0.90text
dignityinstance ofAlternative terminologyBecause of concerns0.80text
human rightsinstance ofAlternative terminologyBecause of concerns0.80text
political correctnessinstance ofAlternative terminologyBecause of concerns0.80text
the terminstance ofAlternative terminologyBecause of concerns0.80text
service delaysinstance ofand can recognize problems0.80text
poor hygieneinstance ofand can recognize problems0.80text
and poor conductinstance ofand can recognize problems0.80text
Patientrelated to Alternative terminologyBecause0.60section
Patientrelated to Alternative terminologyOther0.60section
Patientrelated to Alternative terminologyHowever0.60section
Patientrelated to Alternative terminologyIn0.60section

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